Top 3 historical mistakes in Indo-Sino relationship
2020 is not doing any good for anyone! Started with a near-world-war incident when US & Iran came to the brink of a full-fledged war followed by Amazon wildfires and then this pandemic which has hit almost every country in the world.
While all this was going on, India is battling another war on its borders.
India shares 2nd longest borderline with China. A country that believes in expansionism with aggression and has captured wide land of Indian territory (Aksai Chin), entire Tibet, and now trying to spread their land to Russia and Bhutan.
The borderline between India and China is called Line of Actual Control (LAC) which has been under dispute for the last 70 years.
Despite China’s well-known intention to unlawfully claim the territories, despite their repeated attempts to claim a part of our motherland,we haven't learnt anything from the past and kept on making the mistakes which we made in the past. Eventually, we just experienced the worse stand-off between the Armies of two nations in last 53 years (Post 1967 war)
What has history taught us about China that we kept on ignoring over and over again? Let’s find out!
1. The annexation of Tibet by Chinese
Before 1951, Tibet was an independent nation, until China forcefully annexed it. By then India was a newly independent nation, not in a condition to militarily combat with China to stop the annexation.
Rather, in a 1954 Agreement India openly declared Tibet as an “autonomous part of China”. This appeasement policy came with an ideology to “keep the dragon calm and it will not burn you”. This policy of appeasing the Chinese land-grabbing policy has later bitten us back when China attacked India in 1962 and grabbed a large piece of land of Aksai Chin.
2. Nehru’s refusal to NSG
Famous President of The US, long before India-China offered India to provide a Nuclear Bomb, to protect Indians from Chinese and Pakistani aggression, in return India had to align with Europe and The US. This idea of having a nuclear bomb didn't go well by the Indian authorities, rejected the US’s offer. Many experts say, if we had taken the nuclear bomb from The US then the 1962 war would have never happened.
3. India’s betrayal to Tibet — 2003
When China annexed Tibet in 1951, it broke it down into various sections. One of the sections was called Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) which was supposed to be “independent”. India had never recognized TAR as a part of Chine until 2003!
In 2003, India’s former Prime Minister Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji had officially declared Tibet (TAR) as a part of China.
Another step towards the appeasement of the Chinese land-grabbing policy with the same idea to “keep the dragon calm”. Over and over again we kept on appeasing Chinese policy in a very self-defensive manner
4. History repeated itself in the Modi era as well
For the last few years, China has been aggressively supporting Pakistan on various fronts including economic and political. China has been building Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which directly conflicts with India’s interest.
Moreover, China has been openly opposing the ban on various Pakistan based terrorists that India wants to get them added in the UN list of terrorists.
This should have been a signal that China doesn't hold a good intention for India.
This is a direct attack on India’s national interest. Despite that existing Prime Minister has been appeasing Chinese policies and came closer to Jing Ping like never before. We tried to pacify China through informal talks
China took Kashmir issue to UNSC wherever we did not say a SINGLE WORD on the Honk-Kong issue. This is what exactly Pd Nehru did back in 1951 when annexatio of Tibet was underway.
When we repeat the same mistakes, China repeated its policy again. Post-1967 war, we experienced the worse face off at the LAC where we lost our 20 brave soldiers. This happened when our PM visited China 4 times in 2 years that’s 1 visit every 6 months.
Boycotting Chinese goods is not the prime solution to the problem,. The way we look at China with a diplomatic eye is what we need to change. A sheer diplomatic failure and repeating the same mistakes over and over again won’t do any good to Indian sides
