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"Dalai Lama Challenges China! Chaos in Nepal! Tension at the Border!"

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Blogger wo said...

To sum up such an important war (1962)in a psychological explanation is too misleading, and suggests wrong things. India obviously has its own stragetical considerations in supporting Dalai Lama, and playing the Tibet card. China (or Mao) would be extremely stupid if it failed to recognize this. Mao's temper may add some salt on this tension. But it is completely wrong and disingenous to suggest that the war is mostly out of Communist China's intention to punish Nehru over its frustration on the latter's accommodation of Dalai Lama. This kind of explanation runs counter to the solution of the crisis on the Chinese side--the victor lost the disputed territory. It is understandable from this perspective that why you ommitted mentioning it.

2:23 PM

Blogger China Hand said...

Thanks your comment. In the ATol article I cover the reasons why China withdrew from the territory it had occupied during the war. Certainly the war was strategically important to confirm Chinese control over Aksai Chin. Nevertheless,I find the Khrushchev anecdote both amusing and enlightening in the context of Mao's desire to assert China's leading role in the third world.

6:43 PM

Blogger Sun Bin said...

you have made a lot of polemic conclusion and statement, but not really any convincing evidence leading to your speculation/theory.

a few notes:

1. the key and overwhelming reason for Mao's strike (back) in 1962 was that Nehru was pushing too much (70-80% of his outposts in East (NEFA) were north of McMahon line -- crossing even what the Indian claim was) as he misjudge the ability of China's military over such a harsh terrain and supply line. Mao decided Indian encroachment would not stop unless he acted.

2. Indian's defeat was simply bad leadership and bad training. PLA was as inexperienced in fighting in such terrain as India was. PLA leadership had the experiences of the civil war and the Korean war. You have simply taken the Indian official excuse for the defeat.

3. Nepal factor is peripheral to the whole Indian-China dispute. If anything, the relationship between the Maoist and current PRC is not amicable, since China effectively denounced Mao for 30 years.

4. Pakistan-China relationship was A RESULT of the 1962 war. You made it seems like a decisive factor for Sino-Indian dispute, which really isn't. Even if Pakistan collapses, kashmir will still be a hot spot, it is geopolitic, and religion, irrespective of who rules Pakistan

5. Aksai Chin was not really part of Kashimir. the West side of the disputed problem include other part of Jammu-Kashmir other than Aksai Chin.

6:45 PM

Blogger Sun Bin said...

6. I would think India would NOT openly support the independence of Tibet. In particular, the Pakistan factor should not relate to such a decision since India has other thing to worry about, viz. China's counter to such move would be to support Assam separatism Tit-for-Tat.

6:52 PM

Blogger Kevcham said...

the only thing that matters is what the residents of this "disputed"region want. I'm willing to bet they don't want to be citizens of China.

Frankly, the world is getting tired of China throwing its weight around irresponsibly and interfering in other peoples matters.

8:56 PM

Blogger China Hand said...

Thanks v/much your comments, Mr. Sun.They gave me considerable food for thought. I agree some kind of conflict over India's move into the Aksai Chin was inevitable. However, the way China responded turned into a foreign relations debacle for China. I think linking the nature of China's response to Mao's psychology is not out of line. Re military preparedness, India's main problem was the utter fecklessness and inexperience of Nehru and his Minister of Defense. Certainly the Indians would have put up a better fight if their leadership had planned for a real battle. However, I'd like to point out that recent actual battle experience is very important, especially in a short war--as the PLA found out when it tried to "teach Vietnam a lesson" in that border war. Re Nepal, the evidence for the linkup between the Maoists and the PRC is indisputable. At the risk of peddling my own dog food, I recommend my article in Asia Times for more details. Re Pakistan, I wasn't trying to link the Pakistan situation to the runup to the 1962 war. Pakistan's current lack of value to China as a strategic asset has been pointed out by Indian commentators. On the Indian right wing, there seems to be some desire to make hay while the sun shines i.e. confront China while Pakistan is flat on its back. Re Kashmir, the whole situation inc. the land Pakistan ceded to China is pretty complicated. I didn't want to go into it in too much detail. Thanks for reading.
Best
CH

6:29 AM

Blogger wo said...

Speaking of "turning into a foreign relations debacle", you may want to read the interview of Taylor Fravel on the Indo-China conflict issue at the India website Rediff News: http://news.rediff.com/slide-show/2009/oct/13/slide-show-1-china-has-settled-all-land-border-disputes-except-with-india-and-bhutan.htm

There Fravel, recognized as "the premier expert on China's border problems", gives a completely diffeent view. And in that view, the psychological explanation would seem rather irrelevant, to say the least. Also, Fravel's article published in "International Security": "Power Shift and Escalation: China's use of force in territorial disputes."

1:35 PM

Blogger Sun Bin said...

CH, thanks for your note.

I read your article in ATonline, it is very informative, esp regarding the recent development in Nepal (which I haven't been following). I don't think we have much in disagreement, esp Re: your note above.

and my previous comments were not meant to argue against what you have wrote (e.g. pakistan pre-1962), i was just trying to highlight the related historical background, which are useful to be kept in mind (and serve as the context) while reading your post. e.g. In my view, Nepal is one of the issue re Sin-Indian conflicts, but the fundamental driver is still the border negotiation.

10:27 PM

Blogger rosy marshal said...

Reading this post was very much informative.But at the same time I got a bit worried and annoyed by reading the news of tension at Nepal China border.Hope all things get sorted out in coming time.
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Blogger denk said...

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Blogger denk said...

Kevcham said...
**Frankly, the world is getting tired of China throwing its weight around irresponsibly and interfering in other peoples matters.**

oh yeah ?
if u want to know who have been muddling the water here, look no further than the u.s. [the usual suspects]

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In The Sun Behind the Clouds, Sarin and Sonam take a uniquely Tibetan per­spec­tive on the tri­als and tribu­la­tions of the Dalai Lama and his peo­ple as they con­tinue their strug­gle for free­dom in the face of deter­mined sup­pres­sion by one of the world’s biggest and most pow­er­ful nations. The film­mak­ers had inti­mate access to the Dalai Lama and fol­lowed him over the course of an event­ful year, which included the 2008 protests in Tibet, the inter­na­tional response to it, the Bei­jing Olympics, and the break­down in talks between the Dalai Lama and the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment. Set against this back­drop, the film explores the inter­play between the per­sonal and the his­toric, spir­i­tu­al­ity and pol­i­tics, and the ten­sion between the Dalai Lama’s efforts to find a peace­ful res­o­lu­tion to the Tibet sit­u­a­tion based on com­pro­mise and dia­logue, and the impa­tience of a younger gen­er­a­tion of Tibetans who are ready to take a more con­fronta­tional course.

The film had its North Amer­i­can pre­miere at the recently con­cluded Palm Springs Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val in Cal­i­for­nia where it became the focus of much media atten­tion when the Chi­nese gov­ern­ment tried to get the fes­ti­val to remove the film, osten­si­bly for its anti-China stand. When the fes­ti­val refused, two Chi­nese films were with­drawn in retal­i­a­tion. The film had three sold-out screen­ings and a fourth was added when it was voted one of the Best of the Fest films.

“In a wel­come depar­ture from many pre­vi­ous films about the decades-long fric­tion between Tibet and China, “The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Strug­gle for Free­dom” pro­vides a two-sided view of the com­plex polit­i­cal and social dynam­ics within and out­side Tibet. For the “strug­gle” in the film’s title is not merely against China but also between com­pet­ing Tibetan views regard­ing the best strat­egy: co-existence or inde­pen­dence. The film is essen­tial view­ing for any­one who cares about the fate of the moun­tain region and the legacy of the Dalai Lama.” (Vari­ety, a lead­ing US film trade journal)

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