Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delhi communique was brief and noncommittal. Red China and India would meet in Peking next month, at In dia's request, to discuss "outstanding matters in regard to Tibet." There was nothing in the wording to show Indians themselves that Prime Minister Nehru had grave complaints to lay at his neighbor's door. Among them...
...guards before withdrawing. ¶Red Chinese thugs are waylaying and robbing Hindu pilgrims on the way to the headwaters of the sacred river Ganges, at Gangotri, on India's northern border. ¶ Mao Tse-tung's warlords are grabbing the bulk of India's trade with Tibet, beating, murdering and exacting protection money from Indian merchants who try to compete...
...mule trek from the nearest Indian trading post, is heavily infiltrated by Red Chinese regulars who patrol across the border at will. And in Sikkim, a resident wrote to the London Spectator, "It will be only a matter of time before [the Chinese] start a movement for incorporation with Tibet...
This "movement" is the political threat to India. The border peoples-the lean-shanked Nagas, the scrappy Gurkhas, the gentle aboriginal Lepchas-are closer in racial appearance to Tibet than to India; they do not like Indians at all, and might well respond to sly Communist demands for "independence...
...Preparations. In the three years since Red China swept into Tibet, it has transformed the ancient Forbidden Land into a stronghold; its "liberation army" now numbers an estimated 60,000 men. Since the Korean armistice, the Chinese have moved reinforcements south towards Tibet and India...