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India Races Building Roads to Tense India-China Border

Anjana Pasricha

   NEW DELHI - After a decade of digging beneath the Himalayas at more
   than 3,000 meters, India has opened a strategic, nearly 9-kilometer
   long tunnel that will bypass a snowbound mountain pass in winter and
   cut the journey by 46 kilometers to Ladakh, where Indian and Chinese
   forces are confronting each other.

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