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24/10/22 21:17 PM IST

Missed chances on India-China border

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  • The boundary dispute that led to the 1962 war with China remains unresolved.
  •  This year is the 60th anniversary of the war.
Reasons of war 
  • The border between India and China remain disputed from pre-independent India
  • In the eastern sector, the McMahon Line had been drawn in 1914 without even a survey and taking China into confidence.
  • Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh: The main reason for the Indo-China war was a dispute over the sovereignty of the widely separated Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh border regions.
  • Claim over territories: India claimed Aksai Chin to be part of Ladakh whereas China claimed it as part of Xinjiang.
  • India’s intelligence failure: India remained unaware that this area was already in use by China.
  • The Chinese built a 220-km-long road there only after the completion of the project was announced in 1957.
Result of war 
  • India had misguided optimism about the ‘moral’ superiority and peaceful intentions of the Chinese leadership: It resulted in a weak Indian Army that was ill-prepared and ill-equipped to face the realities of hard power.
  • Underestimation of the strength of the Indian Air Force (IAF): which resulted in its offensive fleet not being used.
  • Political interference in affairs was purely military mismanagement of events from the top.
  • China emerged victorious. It occupied a large part of Ladakh and Arunachal but eventually returned to territories occupied in Arunachal but retained control of about 38,000 square kilometres of Aksai Chin in Ladakh.
Source- Indian Express 

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