| OPIUM | ---- Wars, between China and Britain in 19th century (5) |
| OPIUMWAR | One of the two conflicts between China and Britain in the 19th Century (5,3) |
| OPIUMWARS | 19th-century conflicts between China and Britain (5,4) |
| NEPAL | Country between China and India with the capital Kathmandu, site of eight out of the 10 highest peaks in the world (5) |
| PUNIC | Name applied to the three wars between Rome and Carthage, ending in 146 BC (5) |
| GHENT | Flanders city where the treaty ending the war between Britain and the US was signed in 1814 (5) |
| TREES | The ---, a Rush song about a war between oaks and maples (5) |
| LUCAN | Roman poet whose work Pharsalia describes the war between Caesar and Pompey (5) |
| AWARE | Responsive to war between American and European capitals (5) |
| LURIE | Author of novels The War Between the Tates and Foreign Affairs (6,5) |
| TATES | "The War Between the ___" (Alison Lurie novel) |
| BHUTAN | A country located in the eastern Himalayas between China and India (6) |
| HOLDYOURHEADUP | Song by Argent that was a Top 5 hit in both the US and UK in 1972, peaking at number 5 in both countries |
| SEAMILES | Laughs about Oriental academy some distance between China and Japan, for instance (3,5) |
| TIANSHAN | This mountain system's name means "Celestial Mountains." It stretches for about 1,500 miles (2,500 km) from west-southwest to east-northeast between China and Kyrgyzstan and bisects the ancient territ |
| AMUR | A river between China and Russia |
| YELLOWSEA | Arm of the Pacific Ocean between China and Korea (6,3) |
| SEA | Waterbody between China and Korea The Yellow ___ |
| YALU | River between China and North Korea |
| EVEREST | Mountain between China and Nepal |
