(A) held talks against a classic Chinese landscape of gardens and lakes, with and without aides.

(B) Indian and Chinese troops engaged in a tense stand-off lasting 73 days.

(C) on the high Himalayan plateau of Doklam on the borders of Bhutan, India and China, overlooking the vital Siliguri Corridor connecting ‘mainland’ India to the Northeastern States,

(D) The optics were reassuring and optimism about the outcome of these conversations was implied. Only a year ago,

(E) For the duration of a day and a half, the leaders of the world’s two most populous countries