So according to you, India did not attack West Pakistan because of China?
You give China way too much credit. Allow me to elaborate below. Please read my post a couple of paragraphs below. Heck actually, what China did and has done to protect Pakistan during 1971 was less than minuscule compared to what the USA did. And even there, they could not do much, let alone China.
As I said, you lack of knowledge on this is amazing.
USA had a possible alternative plan to supply military aid to India if China invaded India. At least, the position for US was non-involving. See by yourself the following US document excerpts(US DoS).
101. Analytical Summary Prepared by the National Security
Council Staff1
Washington, July 12, 1971.
4. Seek to encourage Chinese restraint. If the Chinese appeared poised
to embark on a more aggressive and adventuristic policy toward South
Asia, we might seek to urge restraint through third powers with missions
in Peking. India could be informed of this effort in confidence.
In any event it would be in the U.S. interest to see
that hostilities do not expand to include third parties, particularly China.
2. Military Support.
…
(b) To India. The judgment of the paper is that military support to
India is a “less likely” strategy in the context of a limited Indo-Pak conflict,
but if China were to intervene we would want to consider military assistance
to India.6
6 In his memoirs, Kissinger points to the contingencies considered in the planning
paper in the event of Chinese intervention in a conflict between India and Pakistan and
concludes: “Nothing more contrary to the President’s foreign policy could have been
imagined.” (White House Years, p. 865)
93. Editorial Note “Henry Kissinger’s conversations in New Delhi on July 7, 1971, included
a significant exchange with Defense Minister Jagjivan Ram. At
Kissinger’s request, Ram assessed the Chinese military threat to India.
Kissinger observed that China might intervene on behalf of Pakistan
if there was a war between India and Pakistan. He assured Ram that
the United States would take a grave view of any Chinese move against
India.”
“Kissinger’s assurance to Defense Minister Ram contrasts with a
warning he purportedly gave to Ambassador L.K. Jha on July 17. According
to Kissinger’s appointment book, he met with Jha at the Western
White House in San Clemente, California, on July 17. (Library of
Congress, Manuscript Division, Kissinger Papers, Box 438, Miscellany,
1968–1976, Record of Schedule) An account of this meeting prepared
by Jha, cited by Seymour Hersh, indicates that Jha and Kissinger met
alone. Kissinger apparently did not prepare a record of the meeting.
According to Jha’s report of the meeting, as summarized by Hersh,
Kissinger conveyed the warning that if war broke out between India
and Pakistan and China became involved on Pakistan’s side, “we
would be unable to help you against China.”
… the fact that India had just signed the Treaty Of Friendship with the USSR, which clearly said that incase of any attack on India USSR would respond, right? The intent was quite clear. ..
… China is really not an issue when it comes to a war with Pakistan.
Nixon stated clearly, USA did not want to involve in SA as he did not want to add a new complex into his equation. From all information posted above, one can safely believe that his fleet was just a show. Every body knows that Indo-Soviet treaty was aiming at China, for China just fought a brief board war with Soviet years earlier and the animosity was at the peak.
You mention China to be the reason why West Pakistan was not attacked, the idea is laughable. Why then tell me, did China allow Indian Army to separate East Pakistan. Initially, it could have been that China thought that the issue was an internal affair of Pakistan, and thus should not intervene.And did not China gathering the small number of troops on the Indo-Chinese border constitute a threat against Indian action in Pakistan(in tis entirety)!
Precise amount of troop is unknown, even for today. Nonetheless, there was even a report stating that China was planning to invade India should India do not withdraw form E. Pakistan.
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I am so surprise at your naivety, even absurdity, on this issue of China sending troops to E. Pakistan. If China would send troops, IMO, it would go directly for India Proper, perhaps New Delhi, as the above link says! In this way, China could deal India a psychological shock, for the whole country, as it did in 1962. It would totally collapse India's will of resistance, or rather, the attempt of aggression. And that would thwart Indians’ intention against E.P. by itself.
On the other hand, have you thought about if Bengali people did not like West Pakistani government, how could the Chinese possibly do anything? As I said this was their internal affaires. Chinese government saw that clearly. If China had sent troops in E.P., it is very likely that pro-independent people would have attacked Chinese troops. I hope you could still recall these lessons when you sent your troops to Sri Lanka.
Why then were they unsuccessful?
To the contrary, it was very successful. Because the result is, perhaps much to your horror, that an independent Pakistan still sands in the west of India today. This is the objective of China in 1971. This is the kind of help Pakistan needs the most.
Added to your horror is that now the people of Bangladesh also side itself more with China and Pakistan, and are safe guarding their interest tightly against its potential enemy. Perhaps you do know that in the Qingdao Navy Parade, Bangladesh warship BNS F18 Osman is purchased from China.
Then you dont know the Indo-Russian relations. Practically everything India(weapons and technology) wielded in the USSR era was Russian and at friendship prices....
Let’s see Russian “friendship price”:
“Russia has demanded $2 billion more from India for the refurbishment of aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov”
Russia Inflates Aircraft Carrier Admiral Gorshkov Price. and many other more…
Sorry for the digression, but it seems necessary to dismiss some twisted views that have been running rampantly on internet due to false propagandas.