QUETTA, Pakistan -- A $2.4 billion deal between Pakistan and China for a massive hydropower project in Kashmir shows how three nations are vying to out-flank one another in the Himalayas, a disputed territory existing on a knife's edge that recently experienced a deadly clash between Chinese and Indian border forces.
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Pakistan benefits from China-India clash with hydropower deal
Himalaya tensions also give Islamabad opportunity to make a case for debt relief
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has two agreements in as many months from Beijing to fund hydropower projects in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. (Nikkei montage/Reuters/EPA/Jiji)
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