India, China: Moving mountains

Also: Russia, Turkey, Cuba, and Sudan.

Path to Shambhala, Nicholas Roerich, 1933, tempera on board, Roerich Museum, New York.

In today’s dispatch:

• INDIA. CHINA. A pact on border disengagement opens a path to normalisation.

• RUSSIA. Not all emerging powers are keen to attend Putin’s meeting.

• TURKEY. Erdogan faces choices on his past and future.

• CUBA. Multiple power cuts put the regime in a rum situ…