Chinese-Dragon
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This is the umpteenth time you are quoting this clear lie.
How was any country supposed to know you were having a famine? Mao went to great lengths to keep exporting grain (and actually felt people dieing in the millions would help China's population burden...esp as long as his twisted desire to hold onto absolute power was maintained)....tell me how was anyone supposed to know China was literally resorting to cannibalism in many areas? We had satellites up there watching? There was a massive foreign intelligence network within China? There were world reporters on the ground covering it and disseminating this as standard news internationally? Or we only can look at what China and its govt projects to everyone on the matter (normal and even increased grain shipments as usual to other countries)?
Nehru didn't "bait" anyone....and certainly didn't plan it to coincide with some famine he knew about in China (because quite simply he couldn't have known about it...China made sure of that internationally...argument ends there I'm afraid)....sorry he is a great many things....but he is not a psycho like the leftist extremist authoritarian types like Hitler, Stalin and Mao....who put a great many useless futile things ahead of basic human life.
If anything Nehru stripped down his miltary greatly on purpose (he was near perfect globalist in thought) and then stupidly demanded a forward action policy from the very same beyond the himalayan ridge expecting either a miracle or brow beating a country with real recent war experience and plenty of use for it even internally at the time..... instead of just negotiating better for land that is strategically useless for India in the first place (and inherited from british claims). That is not baiting at all....he was just not a pragmatic realistic fellow (and it stems from his own stubborness and foul nature on many other issues) when it came to international policy esp using the military. Anyway it was very good for India that his globalist idealism was defeated early on before we had much more to lose later in our wars with Pakistan....I actually thank China for that. Thus its quite foolhardy to compare India's action in 1962 (whole situation is different) to today....in fact if anything its India with the recent significant war experience.
But for this recent skirmishing, sorry but China isn't getting anywhere with it. Your teams have been ejected from the plateau and you will posture now over the media a bit. This specific area is well supplied by India compared to China, its well in the ridge area and just below where India holds massive conventional superiority. PLA knows much better (they already knew way back in 1971 even with much US goading), they were simply testing the limits here and they got a result on it. They will move on and leave face-saving to your media and however much your govt wants to invest into it. But we are not "baiting" you this time either (its clearly disputed territory between you and Bhutan and we have a security guarantor relationship with Bhutan...plus our own strategic concerns regarding the plateau in question)....you can watch the next few days and months to confirm that (PLA does absolutely nothing and whole thing winds down as has happened in recent past).
According to the Indian Army's own military report (Henderson-Brooks report), it was India who started the war, by setting up military outposts north of the MacMahon Line (called the Forward Policy), after which Nehru ordered the Indian Army to forcibly throw the Chinese out of that area.
You guys keep painting Nehru as some sort of innocent idealist, well guess what he rejected the extremely generous compromise offered by Zhou Enlai in 1960 to turn the LaC into an international border. Because he was greedy, and he knew about the famine in China which started in 1959, coincidentally the same year in which India hosted the Tibetan Government in Exile.
Do you really think that by 1962 no one in the world was aware of the Great leap forward? If China was stronger back then do you think Nehru would have dared to carry out the Forward Policy?