{"id":2455,"date":"2017-07-27T07:09:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T07:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2017-07-27T07:09:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T07:09:11","slug":"how-india-and-china-have-come-to-the-brink-over-a-remote-mountain-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/07\/27\/how-india-and-china-have-come-to-the-brink-over-a-remote-mountain-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW INDIA AND CHINA HAVE COME TO THE BRINK OVER A REMOTE MOUNTAIN PASS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/INDIA-CHINA-BORDERS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2444\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/INDIA-CHINA-BORDERS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/INDIA-CHINA-BORDERS.jpg 660w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/INDIA-CHINA-BORDERS-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/INDIA-CHINA-BORDERS-560x422.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/INDIA-CHINA-BORDERS-260x196.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/07\/INDIA-CHINA-BORDERS-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : New York Times<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">By Steven Lee Myers, Helen Barry and Max Fisher <\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\">On a remote pass through Himalayan peaks, China and India, two nuclear-armed nations, have come near the brink of conflict over an unpaved road. It is one of the worst border disputes between the regional rivals in more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">The road stands on territory at the point where <a class=\"meta-loc\" title=\"More news and information about China.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/china\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">China<\/a>, <a class=\"meta-loc\" title=\"More news and information about India.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/india\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">India<\/a> and <a class=\"meta-loc\" title=\"More news and information about Bhutan.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/bhutan\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">Bhutan<\/a> meet. The standoff began last month when Bhutan, a close ally of India, discovered Chinese workers trying to extend the road. India <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/27\/world\/asia\/india-china-border.html\">responded<\/a> by sending troops and equipment to halt the construction. China, the more powerful of the two, angrily denounced the move and demanded that India pull back.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at :\u00a0 https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/26\/world\/asia\/dolam-plateau-china-india-bhutan.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : New York Times By Steven Lee Myers, Helen Barry and Max Fisher On a remote pass through Himalayan peaks, China and India, two nuclear-armed nations, have come near the brink of conflict over an unpaved road. It is one of the worst border disputes between the regional rivals in more than 30 years.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/07\/27\/how-india-and-china-have-come-to-the-brink-over-a-remote-mountain-pass\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HOW INDIA AND CHINA HAVE COME TO THE BRINK OVER A REMOTE MOUNTAIN PASS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[80,276],"class_list":["post-2455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-china","tag-india","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}