By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ NEW DELHI — India and China agreed on Monday to back away from their confrontation over a tiny slice of territory high in the Himalayas, easing tensions between the world’s two most populous countries. For weeks, worries had been growing of a major conflict between the two nuclear powers, in what had developed into one of the worst border disputes between the countries in 30 years — punctuated…
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by Sarah Zheng, Liu Zhen & Kristin Huang in South China Morning Post, Aug 29, 2017 China has put on hold building work in a disputed area of its border with India as part of an agreement to end the two-month military stand-off with its neighbour, but will maintain patrols in the area, according to Chinese diplomatic analysts. The two nations have agreed to withdraw troops from an area on the Doklam plateau at the…