Mohan Tvm 1131 days ago

From time immemorial, India virtually had no border with China. Himalayas served as a buffer region, thus avoiding wars between two great civilizations. Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim are all more friendly with India than with China. If India had taken a firm stand on Tibet, we will not be having a common border. On 24 Oct 1950, Lt Gen Nathu Singh Thakur warned "Communist China’s complete success over the Kuomintang, their declared policy towards liberation of Tibet, clearly indicate the writing on the wall. The Communist menace is gradually spreading towards the borders of India". Even the Chinese conquest of Tibet in 1951 had rung no alarm bells in New Delhi. Nehru’s handling of Tibet was as scandalously inept as his handling of J&K. Prior to the occupation of Tibet, China started building a National Highway, G219, connecting Xinjiang to Tibet via Aksai Chin and Nehru-Menon ignored this development. Sensing India’s weakness, China tightened its grip on Tibet and hardened its stand on border dispute with India. In 2017, China had already completed a strong logistics infrastructure along Indian border that include roads, railway line, air fields and fibre optic network, upto Chumbi valley with the aim of bringing PAK terrorists upto the Siliguri Corridor. Sita Ram and JNU commies wooed Nepal away from India and parked in Chinese camp. Situation in 2017 is far more precarious than in 1962 because China has become a super power. Never be complacent by calling it a Paper Tiger