ASHOK SHARMA / CHRISTOPHER BODEEN

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India and China face off in border standoff

Published On: July 25, 2017 10:35 AM NPT By: ASHOK SHARMA / CHRISTOPHER BODEEN

NEW DELHI, July 25: It was the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan that sounded the alarm: Chinese soldiers had arrived with bulldozers and excavators, and were building a high-mountain road near India's border — in an area the two nuclear-armed Asian giants have disputed for decades.