China and India Turn Down Tensions Over Border

A car rally organized by India’s opposition Bharatiya Janata Party’s youth wing heads towards the Indo China border in Bumla at an altitude of 15,700 feet (9813 meters) above sea level in Arunachal Pradesh, India, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. The rally was held to pay homage to the Indian martyrs of the 1962 war between India and China. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

China and India have backed down from a simmering dispute over their border in the Himalayan mountains, Chinese and Indian officials said Monday.

The détente comes as Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi and Chinese premier Xi Jinping prepare to meet in China at a conference of the BRICS bloc of developing countries, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

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