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Peking radio also confirmed earlier reports that Russia was stirring up the Kazakh tribesmen in Sinkiang against their Chinese masters. Only last year, Red China charged, Russia had lured some 10,000 Kazakhs in Sinkiang into crossing the border into Soviet Kazakhstan. Despite repeated protest from Peking, Russia refused to give back the Kazakhs because of "humanitarianism" -a pretext that China clearly regarded as ludicrous...
...sooner had the Chinese attacked India last year than the usually aloof Red Chinese diplomats scurried from their rambling Karachi embassy compound to court the Pakistanis. In December Ayub readily accepted China's offer to redraw the border between China's Sinkiang region and the Pakistan-controlled portion of Kashmir in a way favorable to Pakistan. A trade agreement followed in January, and recently Pakistan's Foreign Minister hinted broadly that China had agreed to aid Pakistan against possible Indian attack. Last week Pakistan and Communist China signed an airline agreement that could make Pakistan...
...Where is China?" asked Czar Mikhail Romanov. "Is it rich? What can we lay claim to?" Russian claims (Manchuria, Outer Mongolia, Sinkiang) caused friction for centuries, down to the present...
...NEFA and then to withdraw back to the McMahon Line, one Chinese objective seems clear--the continued possession of the Aksai Chin area of Ladakh. This area is only of little real importance to India, but through it runs the main road connecting Chinese Tibet with Chinese Sinkiang. This is the only problem over which Indian and Chinese statements indicate irreconcilable disagreement...
...Chinese had less ambitious aims to begin with: to take the high ground and the key military passes away from the Indians, and to finally establish, once and for all, Chinese control of the Aksai Chin plateau in Ladakh, so as to safeguard the vital military roads to Sinkiang province. The Chinese may have been unprepared to exploit the almost total collapse of India's armed forces and may even have been surprised by their swift success. On this reading, the terms of the Chinese cease-fire offer become intelligible. The Nov. 7 line would in effect barter away...