The China - India Border War 1962
China knew
India plans since 1958 that Nehru and his Defense Ministry and Indian
war generals were planning something regarding encroaching on Chinese
Xichang ( Tibet ). India was at the time controlling a large part of
Chinese territory in South East Tibet which was taken by the British
from China in around 1913 to 1914 and eventually annexed to British
India inspite of constant Chinese protest.
When England gave
India independence it did not settle the border issue between China and
British India but retained the Chinese territory. India wanted to retain
the stolen territory from China. Nehru and his generals and India
Defense Ministry were tone deaf to China's pleading for talks to settle
the border dispute a left over baggage from colonial England.
But
Nehru and India wanted to retain the Chinese lands stolen from China
and refused to enter into any talks with China. In short India wanted to
inherit and maintain the mantle of British colonialism and imperialism.
The Indian generals and the Indian Defense Ministry wanted to take over
all Xizhang or Tibet claiming that China was very weak after over a
century of Western and Japanese aggressions and invasions and after a
debilitating Civil War and the Korean War 1950 to 1953 and so it was the
best time for India to take over Chinese Xizhang. Moreover Indian
Ministry officials claimed that India had at the moment of time
inherited a lot of the most modern and latest weapons from UK, US and
the West compared to the Chinese peasant army which was poorly armed
with archiac rifles of the First World war.
India was so sure of
defeating the Chinese army in an open warfare. It started to nibble more
of Chinese lands beyond the Actual Line Of Control. China had given
India ample warnings to stop encroaching more on Chinese lands. But
instead of giving heed to Chinese warnings India under US instigationsand encouragement began a full scale attack on China's positions to
march further into Xichang hoping to take full control of Chinese Tibet
in one full swoop with all the mighty weapons supplied by the US and
England.
China was then forced to counter attack the Indians at
all fronts with great fury and fierce ferocity which drove the
unanticipated Indian armies back behind the Line of Actual Control.
However the Indians continued to attack the Chinese despite China's call
for a ceasefire and to begin talks on settling the border question.
This time the Chinese army fought with even greater valour and drove the
Indian armies right up to the doorstep of Delhi the Indian capital.
More than ten thousand Indian soldiers were either captured by the
Chinese or they just laid down their arms and surrendered to the
Chinese. It was a rout for the Indians. Only then did Nehru and his
generals and defense ministry agree to hold talks with China.
In
her victory China could have taken back all her former lands taken by
England and retain all the lands right up to New Delhi. But for the sake
of peace and Asian solidarity and corporation in face of continuous
Western aggression led by the United States, China was honourable to
return to the Line of Actual Control.
Thus in the relevance of
China - India border war China did not appear to behave like an Ah Q but
used it patiently like one so as to carry out its strategy of 'calm
before the storm' on the Indians.
China always want peace. When
China's army return back to the Line of Actual Control it acted with
great honour and respect for the Chinese people cherish peace. Though the
Chinese people cherish peace and do not like war but the Chinese people
are also not afraid of war. If war is imposed on China the Chinese
people will fight with great patriotic fervour and will always fight to
win.
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Adjunct story to the China - India border war 1962. PART ONE
The forgery of a political document in 1914 by England on the Chinese Tibetan border with British Colonial India has great turbulent ramifications on the present relations between China and India.
In 1914 England secretly convened a conference in Simla in which British Colonial Secretary of Colonial India Henry McMahon coerced and lured Tibetan representative Xa Zha to sign an under-the-table deal behind the back of the Chinese delegate. The document they signed secretly known as the "Simla Accord" created the notorious "McMahon Line which incorporated a large area of Southern Tibet including the 'Tawang District that had always been under the administration of China's Tibet. The illegal and illicit deal forced Tibet to give nearly a hundred thousand square kilometers of Chinese territory to British India.
However, on 3rd of July, 1914, the Chinese central government in Beijing instructed Chinese official representative Chen Yi Fan not to sign the null and void accord and declared, " The Chinese government will acknowledge none of the accord or similar document signed by the UK and Tibet on this or any other day". As Chen Yi Fan refused to sign the accord, the Simla Conference broke up. The " Mcmahon Line" was not legally binding. Both the Simla Accord and the British drawn arbitrary "McMahon Line have never been accepted by the Chinese government.
PART TWO will be published on another date.
Reference: Global Times.
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