The chief of staff for India’s army appeared to downplay the presence of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the disputed Doklam region that lies near the border shared by the two rival nations.

Contents: China resumes military buildup in Bhutan’s Doklam Plateau; Foreign ministers of China and India meet, and discuss Doklam; China’s media predict nuclear war in North Korea by March

Contents: Burma makes farcical agreement with Bangladesh to take back Rohingya refugees; China proposes farcical three-point solution to Rohingya crisis; India and China support Burma on Rohingya ethnic cleansing for business reasons

Contents: Steve Bannon and Henry Kissinger form project to sound alarm on China; Taiwan’s prime minister says that Taiwan is an ‘independent sovereign state’

Contents: Chinese and Indian behavior: A study in contrasts during Doklam crisis; Analysts draw lessons from the China vs. India Doklam border standoff.

Contents: Vietnam protests China’s military drills near the Gulf of Tonkin in South China Sea; India and Vietnam become allies in confronting China

Contents: China and India announce pullback agreement on Doklam Plateau; Many unanswered questions about the China-India Doklam agreement; North Korea launches ballistic missile into Japan’s airspace

The strange and increasingly alarming confrontation between India and China in the Himalayas appears to be over, at least for the time being. On Monday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that Indian troops had withdrawn the small force that was “trespassing” on territory claimed by China.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry blasted India over the Doklam border dispute on Thursday, accusing the Indian government duplicity and “slapping its own face” by planning to build a road in contested territory – much as China has already done.

Contents: China opens a new front in its border war with India; Survey of Bhutan’s people shows high anxiety over border confrontation; North Korea apparently backs down from the threat to attack Guam

Contents: India reinforces its military in preparation for war; Bhutan makes it clear to China that its ally is India; SCMP: China and India on brink of war that could spread to the Indian Ocean

Contents: China sets apparent Aug 19 deadline for India to remove soldiers from Doklam; Trump threatens North Korea with ‘fire and fury’

Contents: China takes control of Sri Lanka’s strategically valuable Hambantota seaport; India reacts to China’s One-Belt One-Road and threat of war over Doklam; Threat of India-China border war at Doklam Plateau grows

Contents: China further escalates the rhetoric threatening India over Doklam Plateau; China attempts to justify its claim to the Doklam Plateau

Contents: China escalates its military threats over its border dispute with India at Doklam Plateau; India says that it will remain ‘firm and resolute’ but ‘reasonable’

Contents: Thousands flee homes in Kashmir as Pakistan-India shelling escalates; China threatens military intervention in Kashmir on the side of Pakistan

Even as China and India square off over unrest on their borders, the United States Navy held its largest joint maritime exercise with India and Japan in three decades, teaming the USS Nimitz battle group with India’s only aircraft carrier and Japan’s most powerful warships.

Contents: China and India have military confrontation over Bhutan’s Doklam plateau; Border tensions grow between China and India

The refugees resettled by the federal government in New Hampshire produced 29 percent of all diagnosed active tuberculosis (TB) cases in the state during 2014 and 2015, says the Centers for Disease Control.

Contents: Relations between India and Pakistan continue to deteriorate; India boycotts regional SAARC meeting in order to isolate Pakistan; Terrorists attack another Indian army base in Kashmir; India and Pakistan threaten war over Indus River water rights

The number of U.S. born cases of active TB in the state actually declined from 8 in 2013 to 7 in 2014. But the number of foreign-born cases of active TB in Nebraska more than doubled in one year, from 13 in 2013, to 31 in 2014. According to the Centers for Disease Control, only 61.9 percent of the active TB cases in 2013, or 13 out of 21, were foreign-born.

Dr. John Baird, Health Officer for the Fargo Cass Public Health Department in North Dakota, confirms to Breitbart News that the agency, which serves all of Cass County, has diagnosed and treated four refugees with active tuberculosis (TB) between 2012 and 2015.

Indians have expressed shock over the brutality of the barbaric massacre that took place on Tuesday in Assam province, in India’s far northeast.