Note to players: Two answers required. One of these two countries announced a megadam in Upper Siang to diffuse a potential “water bomb” from a dam project being built upstream in the other country. In June 2020, one of these counties banned 59 apps originating from the other country as a threat to sovereignty after a border skirmish. That clash saw dozens of troops from these two counties die in hand-to-hand combat in the Galwan Valley. The de facto border between these two counties is the Line of Actual Control in disputed regions like Aksai Chin. One of these two countries called the other’s continued sheltering of the Dalai Lama a “thorn” in relations shortly before one of these countries’ External Minister visited Tiānjīn. For 10 points, name these two Asian countries currently led by Xǐ Jìnpíng and Narendra Modi. ■END■
ANSWER: China AND India [accept answers in either order; accept People’s Republic of China or PRC or Zhōngguó or Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó in place of “China”; accept Republic of India or Bhārat Gaṇarājya in place of “India”; reject “Republic of China”]
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