It was in early October 1962 that Chairman Mao Zedong decided to launch a full-scale invasion to severely punish India. While the main offensive was to be in the eastern sector, coordinated operations would be undertaken in the western sector to capture areas up to the 1960 claim line in …
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The Union government has asked Wikipedia to remove a map showing Aksai Chin as part of China, issuing a strong letter to the US-based nonprofit, according to officials familiar with the matter. Wikipedia is one of the most popular repositories of information online and works on a volunteer-based model to …
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China has vastly increased its military infrastructure, not only around the fighting locations, but along other stretches of the Royal Line of Control under the Western Theater Command of the People’s Liberation Army. The deployment and renewed focus on improving infrastructure has led Indian officials to suspect that the rapid …
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Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in this 1957 photo NEW DELHI: In early 1957, a daring secret mission inside Aksai Chin that he saw an Indian army officer and a havildar join a group of disguised yak herders actually provided first-hand evidence that China had illegally built a highway …
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