China’s India War
Collision Course on the Roof of the World
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Publication date:
06/11/2017
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348 pages
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ISBN:
9780199475551
Publication date:
06/11/2017
Hardback
348 pages
Bertil Lintner
For fifty years, India has been seen as the provocateur of the 1962 Sino-Indian conflict. This idea has been largely reinforced by Neville Maxwell’s seminal work India’s China War, which proposed that China was merely defending its territory. Bertil Lintner’s China’s India War offers a strong rebuttal to this view. Offering an entirely new perspective, Lintner argues that the ‘border dispute’ was merely a small move in the larger strategic game that China was playing to become a world player—one that it continues to play even today.
Rights: World Rights
Bertil Lintner
Description
The Sino-Indian War of 1962 delivered a crushing defeat to India: not only did the country suffer a loss of lives and a heavy blow to its pride, the world began to see India as the provocateur of the war, with China ‘merely defending’ its territory. This perception that China was largely the innocent victim of Nehru’s hostile policies was put forth by journalist Neville Maxwell in his book India’s China War, which found readers in many opinion makers, including Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon.
For far too long, Maxwell’s narrative, which sees India as the aggressor and China as the victim, has held court. Nearly 50 years after Maxwell’s book, Bertil Lintner’s China’s India War puts the ‘border dispute’ into its rightful perspective. Lintner argues that China began planning the war as early as 1959 and proposes that it was merely a small move in the larger strategic game that China was playing to become a world player—one that it continues to play even today.
About the Author
Bertil Lintner is a former correspondent with the Far Eastern Economic Review, Hong Kong, the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet, and Jane’s Information Group in the UK. He is currently with Asia Times Online and Asia Pacific Media Services. Lintner has written 17 books on Asian politics and history, including Outrage: Burma’s Struggle for Democracy; Land of Jade: A Journey from India through Northern Burma to China; Blood Brothers: Crime, Business and Politics in Asia; Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea
Under the Kim Clan; Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s Struggle for Democracy; World.Wide.Web: Chinese Migration in the 21st Century; and Great Game East: India, China and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier.
Bertil Lintner
Table of contents
Introduction and Acknowledgements
1. The Improbable Border Dispute
2. The Line
3. The Invasion
4. When the War was Over
5. An Enchanted—and Endangered—Frontier
6. Gross National Happiness?
7. Maoism Redux
8. Borderlands and Oceans
Chronology
Additional Reading
Index
About the Author
Bertil Lintner
Features
- A comprehensive review of the border rivalry between India and China
- Details the history and contemporary state of the Tibet issue
- Unravels the Chinese connection with insurgency in India’s northeast and Maoism in central India
- Discusses the merger of Sikkim and the controversy surrounding it
- Debates the situation of Bhutan vis-à-vis India
- Explores the question of Myanmar and ‘Look East Policy’
Bertil Lintner
Review
‘It is an absolute must read for anyone interested in the current political/geostrategic equations and on-going machinations involved in what the author rightly calls the world’s newest “Cold War”.’
—Michael Hayes, co-founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of the Phnom Penh Post (1992–2008)
‘… a remarkable book throwing new light on the murky goings-on in the forbidding corners of the Himalayas and Northeast India.’
—Nayan Chanda, author of Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization and former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review
‘Meticulously researched … Highly recommended for both specialists and the general reader.’
—June Teufel Dreyer, professor of political science, University of Miami, Florida
Description
The Sino-Indian War of 1962 delivered a crushing defeat to India: not only did the country suffer a loss of lives and a heavy blow to its pride, the world began to see India as the provocateur of the war, with China ‘merely defending’ its territory. This perception that China was largely the innocent victim of Nehru’s hostile policies was put forth by journalist Neville Maxwell in his book India’s China War, which found readers in many opinion makers, including Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon.
For far too long, Maxwell’s narrative, which sees India as the aggressor and China as the victim, has held court. Nearly 50 years after Maxwell’s book, Bertil Lintner’s China’s India War puts the ‘border dispute’ into its rightful perspective. Lintner argues that China began planning the war as early as 1959 and proposes that it was merely a small move in the larger strategic game that China was playing to become a world player—one that it continues to play even today.
About the Author
Bertil Lintner is a former correspondent with the Far Eastern Economic Review, Hong Kong, the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet, and Jane’s Information Group in the UK. He is currently with Asia Times Online and Asia Pacific Media Services. Lintner has written 17 books on Asian politics and history, including Outrage: Burma’s Struggle for Democracy; Land of Jade: A Journey from India through Northern Burma to China; Blood Brothers: Crime, Business and Politics in Asia; Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea
Under the Kim Clan; Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s Struggle for Democracy; World.Wide.Web: Chinese Migration in the 21st Century; and Great Game East: India, China and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier.
Reviews
‘It is an absolute must read for anyone interested in the current political/geostrategic equations and on-going machinations involved in what the author rightly calls the world’s newest “Cold War”.’
—Michael Hayes, co-founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of the Phnom Penh Post (1992–2008)
‘… a remarkable book throwing new light on the murky goings-on in the forbidding corners of the Himalayas and Northeast India.’
—Nayan Chanda, author of Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization and former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review
‘Meticulously researched … Highly recommended for both specialists and the general reader.’
—June Teufel Dreyer, professor of political science, University of Miami, Florida
Table of contents
Introduction and Acknowledgements
1. The Improbable Border Dispute
2. The Line
3. The Invasion
4. When the War was Over
5. An Enchanted—and Endangered—Frontier
6. Gross National Happiness?
7. Maoism Redux
8. Borderlands and Oceans
Chronology
Additional Reading
Index
About the Author
