{"id":114241,"date":"2021-06-23T13:07:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T07:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=114241"},"modified":"2021-06-23T13:07:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T07:37:02","slug":"chinas-realpolitik-lesson-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chinas-realpolitik-lesson-to-india\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s realpolitik lesson to India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Context<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The well-known\u00a0historian\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">Avtar Singh Bhasin\u2019s latest book \u201cNehru, Tibet and China\u201d answers a simple question: As both India and China\u00a0emerged\u00a0in their current avatars at the end of the 1940s, what went wrong in relations between them and why.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">About the India-China war in 1962:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"78\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"92\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Like other analysts, he also\u00a0apportions a large share of the blame to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. He mentioned that, Nehru was\u00a0\u201cinfatuated with the Chinese\u201d ever since he came into contact with them at the \u201c<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Conference against Imperialism<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201d in\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Brussels, in 1927<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"78\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"93\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Nehru\u2019s policy \u201cforge the concept of Asian solidarity.\u201d.\u00a0On the other hand,\u00a0the People\u2019s Republic of China unsentimentally pursued the\u00a0objective\u00a0of great power.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"78\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"94\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">He concludes that the Chinese attack in 1962 was unrelated to territorial or boundary issues but rather \u201cto demolish India\u2019s arrogance and illusion of grandeur\u201d. The book even mentions,\u00a0Zhao Enlai\u2019s explanation in 1972 to President Richard\u00a0Nixon \u201d\u00a0we (China) had gone to war, to teach India a lesson.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">About Tibet<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"79\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"95\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Francis Younghusband\u2019s expedition to Lhasa in 1904\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">and the\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">1907 Anglo-Russian Convention\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">that\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">left China in full control of Tibet<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"79\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"96\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Simla Convention and Britain\u00a0failed\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">to\u00a0wrap up the territorial bargain it had imposed on Tibet and China.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"79\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"97\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Far from accepting the McMahon Line as the India-Tibet border,\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Lhasa wrote to New Delhi on October 16, 1947<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">. It asked for the return of extensive tracts of territory that \u201chad been gradually included in India in the past\u201d.\u00a0This includes \u201cSikkim, Bhutan, Darjeeling, Ladakh and others \u2018on this side of the River Ganges\u2026 up to the boundary of\u00a0Yarkhim\u2019.\u201d\u00a0But, within few\u00a0years(1950) Tibet had become a part of China.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"79\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"98\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Now China demanded the same, But\u00a0Nehru told Zhou Enlai in 1959 that if India were to concede to Tibet\u2019s demands the India-Tibet border would\u00a0literally be\u00a0on the River Ganga and rejected the claim.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"79\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"99\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">But\u00a0Beijing cites Lhasa\u2019s demands in Sino-Indian border talks even today.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Source<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/beyond-business\/china-s-realpolitik-lesson-to-india-121062101653_1.html\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Business Standard<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0 The well-known\u00a0historian\u00a0Avtar Singh Bhasin\u2019s latest book \u201cNehru, Tibet and China\u201d answers a simple question: As both India and China\u00a0emerged\u00a0in their current avatars at the end of the 1940s, what went wrong in relations between them and why.\u00a0 About the India-China war in 1962:\u00a0\u00a0 Like other analysts, he also\u00a0apportions a large share of the blame&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/chinas-realpolitik-lesson-to-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China&#8217;s realpolitik lesson to India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,8043,9],"tags":[2353,212,8133,239],"class_list":["post-114241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-current-affairs-cat","category-public","tag-china","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-india-and-china","tag-international-relations","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701319369},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}