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Two Western authors produced studies of the 1962 Sino-Indian war that were significantly biased in favour of China. The first of these was by the Anglo-Australian journalist Neville Maxwell, whose book

‘India’s China War’ (1971) posited that though China attacked on 20th

October 1962, it was India that had provoked the war, apparently

because of India’s ‘Forward Policy’. This was formally adopted only on

2nd November 1961. The British academic Alastair Lamb’s scholarly

work of 1964, had attempted to show that the disputed areas in the east

should belong the China.

However, it had been decided by Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping

at a eating as early as 25th March 1959 that ‘. . . action had to be taken

against Nehru’ well before his decision of 2nd November 1961. This

has been adequately brought by the Swedish journalist-researcher based

in east Asia, Bert Lintner, in his ‘China’s India War’ (2018).

NOTES

1. From Wikipedia, citing James Barnard Calvin, ‘The China-India Border War’,

April 1984, on the Internet at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War, accessed on June 21, 2008.

2. Ibid, citing John W. Garver, ‘China’s Decision for War with India in 1962’, accessed on June 21, 2008.

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