We have been so preoccupied with rioting and protests recently that some international news has just about disappeared. If you get out your handy dandy orbital spy camera, however, you’ll see some unusual road preparation in the area controlled by China (as well as just south of there in the area controlled by India).
There is, you see, no fixed border between these two countries at several points along the several thousand-mile border that separates them. A few years ago, China fought a border war with India to try to settle the matter, but the dispute ended with a status quo ...