India's military steps up operational readiness on China border

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Source: Associated Press

August 11, 2017 / 8:36 AM / 6 minutes ago

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's military has increased operational readiness along the eastern Indian border with China, sources said, as neither side shows any sign of backing off from a face-off in a remote Himalayan region near their disputed frontier.

Indian and Chinese troops have been embroiled in the seven-week confrontation on the Doklam plateau, claimed by both China and India's tiny ally, Bhutan.

The sources, who were briefed on the deployment, said they did not expect the tensions, involving about 300 soldiers on each side standing a few hundred feet apart, to escalate into a conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbors, who fought a brief but bloody border war in 1962.

But the military alert level had been raised as a matter of caution, two sources in New Delhi and in the eastern state of Sikkim told Reuters on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-china-idUSKBN1AR191?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

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1. I've been following this

I never hear it mentioned in American press.

Not mentioned in this article is a build up of Chinese navy ships off the coast of India,
which I read about recently.

Also not mentioned is that China and India fought a border war some decades ago.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. The beginnings of worldwide mobilization? August 1914

It only takes a few to get things going