Daily Memo: India and China Pull Back From the Brink

But a Chinese-Indian truce doesn’t mean the clashes can’t lead to indirect escalation elsewhere.

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Cooler heads in the Himalayas. India and China on Tuesday agreed on a set of “modalities for disengagement from all friction areas in eastern Ladakh” in the Himalayas, per a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement and unnamed Indian government sources. Few details of the pullback have been released. As we’ve discussed, the unforgiving geography of the […]

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