SOURCE: TIMES NOW
Rattled by the criticism from the Congress over China’s incursion in eastern Ladakh, Union Minister Jitendra Singh took a swipe at the grand old party calling China a “baggage left by Rahul Gandhi’s great grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru.”
Nehru had walked through the streets of Delhi along with Zhou Enlai during his trip to India in 1960 with people around chanting ‘Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai’ and then whatever happened is history, said Singh adding that India was still paying for 1962 Indo-China Himalayan tragedy.
‘Chou en Lai has lied to me so often that I do not feel like trusting him anymore’
In 2007 a declassified Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report termed Chinese diplomatic efforts a “five-year masterpiece of guile, executed and probably planned in large part by Chou en Lai.”
It further said that Chou “played on Nehru’s Asian, anti-imperialist mental attitude, his proclivity to temporise and his sincere desire for an amicable Sino-Indian relationship.”
The intelligence report further quotes Nehru as telling one of his sources that Chou en Lai has lied to him so often that he does not feel like trusting him anymore.
Chinese do not regard us as their friends: Sardar Patel to Nehru in 1950
Brigadier JP Dalvi, an Indian Army officer during the Sino-Indian War of 1962, in his masterpiece ‘Himalayan Blunder: The Angry Truth About India’s Most Crushing Military Disaster’ writes:
“1962 was a National Failure of which every Indian is guilty. It was a failure in the Higher Direction of War, a failure of the Opposition, a failure of the general staff (myself included); it was a failure Responsible Public Opinion and the Press. For the Government of India, it was a Himalayan Blunder at all levels.”
In a letter addressed to Nehru in 1950, Sardar Patel had said, “even though we regard ourselves as the friends of China, the Chinese do not regard us as their friends.”
The tension between the nuclear-armed neighbours has been brewing over China’s stiff opposition to India laying a key road in the Finger area around the Pangong Tso (lake) apart from construction of another road connecting the Darbuk-Shayok-Daulat Beg Oldie road in Galwan Valley.
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