Word: kreisberger
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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When China attacked India the same year, Washington-based Draconologists Allen Whiting (now deputy consul general in Hong Kong) and Paul Kreisberg were able to predict that the advance would stop short of a full-scale invasion. Tension rose in the State Department as the Indians suffered defeat after defeat, but the Chinese eventually halted almost precisely where the U.S. experts said they would. In 1965, in the midst of the Indian-Pakistani war over Kashmir, China threatened intervention against India. Whiting calmly pronounced the threat nothing more than a bluff-and so it proved...