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India to build 9.2km bridge along troubled border with China

The bridge across the Brahmaputra River will ensure smooth movement of troops and resources to Arunachal Pradesh

Published Thu, May 25, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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FOR more than five decades, India ignored the roads along its 4,056km disputed border with China.

The logic was simple: The South Asian nation didn't want to give Chinese troops an easy path if Beijing ever tried to repeat the brief 1962 border war and encroach into the territory India sees as its own.

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