Nepal Has Powerful Friends in High Places: India and China
India, China Lead Global Rescue Efforts in Nepal
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After the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that flattened parts of the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu on Saturday and unleashed avalanches on Mount Everest, India and China barely missed a beat.
Within hours of the disaster, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dispatched military aircraft carrying workers, medicines and blankets. A day later, President Xi Jinping’s government sent a search-and-rescue team to the Himalayan kingdom, together with medical equipment and sniffer dogs.