Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explosive situation" inside China. Openly critical of China's foreign policy, Nehru bluntly accused Peking of "creating situations and tensions among the nations of Asia." Angrily he refuted China's contention that Tibetans in refugee camps in India were being recruited to trigger a revolt in Tibet. "Whatever might happen to Tibet in the future." he said, "it is obvious who is now riding on the backs of the Tibetan people." The nagging doubt remained that Nehru had often in the past put up a brave front against the Chinese, only to back down again...
Making Friends. The shadow of China for centuries has loomed over the Himalayas as a threat to its southern neighbors. But not until Red China's "peaceful liberation" of Tibet in 1950 did India worry much about Chinese designs on Indian territory. Said Nehru: "A border that had been dead has now become a live border." India tried to buy Red China off by championing its admission to the United Nations, opposed all U.N. attempts to condemn the Chinese for their conquest of Tibet. The feeble Indian good-neighbor policy only encouraged the Chinese to look southward with greater...
...Indian-backed and -based rebels against the Nepalese government have strained relations with India so severely that King Mahendra for the first time was making overtures to Red China. Already the Chinese have agreed to build a road between Nepal's capital city of Katmandu and Lhasa in Tibet. Backbone of the Nepalese economy is the employment in the British and Indian armies of the 20,000 tough little Nepalese Gurkha soldiers; from their annual pay they send home $5,000,000-equal to a fourth or more of Nepal's yearly budget...
Imperialist Product. Red China's first attempt to bite off an Indian finger came after its subjugation of Tibet, when it repudiated the so-called McMahon Line, the border arranged between British India and Tibet in 1914, and named after the head British negotiator. Running across N.E.F.A. from Bhutan to Burma, the line set the border at the watershed at the crest of the highest mountains. But the Red Chinese declared the McMahon Line an "illegal, null and void" product of "British imperialism," claimed that the actual border ran along the southern foot of the mountains...
...turned out, all the respect came from India. Less than a year after the Panch Shila agreement, the Chinese began building a military road between Western China and Tibet that cut 112 miles across Ladakh. So casually did India patrol the area that the road was not discovered until 1958-though it had been shown on available Chinese maps for more than a year. But only after squashing the Tibetan revolt in 1959 did the Chinese go out of their way to provoke India...