China has been preparing for another battle to reclaim lost lands.
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"We cannot lose even one inch of the territory left behind by our ancestors," Chinese President Xi Jinping told the then US Defence Secretary James Mattis in 2018. Spanning the majority of India's 4,057km northern perimeter, the Sino-Indian frontier meanders along the vertiginous topography of the Himalayan mountain range.
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