Chinese Influence & Expansion

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This isn't good,

India, China troops clash at Himalayan border, 'casualties on both sides'

India's army said on Tuesday 20 of its soldiers had been killed in clashes with Chinese troops at a disputed border site, in a major escalation of a weeks-long standoff between the two Asian giants in the western Himalayas.

uk.reuters.com

 

[Mr. Tea]

I'd go as far as to call it bad, in fact.

 

[luka]

not ones to mince words are you boys!

 

[Mr. Tea]

not ones to mince words are you boys!

I am a hard-nosed geopolitical analyst!

 

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I'd assumed they'd been shooting at each other, but apparently they were fighting with "iron rods and stones" (?!).

 

[Mr. Tea]

Sticks and stones may break my bones, which, it turns out, is jolly painful and not conducive to a positive health outcome.

 

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