{"id":27409,"date":"2026-01-01T19:19:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=27409"},"modified":"2026-01-01T19:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:19:48","slug":"how-did-the-us-provoke-conflict-between-china-and-india-in-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=27409","title":{"rendered":"How did the US provoke conflict between China and India in the past?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From October 20 to November 21, 1962, a relatively forgotten conflict erupted between China and India. The confrontation affected India\u2019s position in the Non-Aligned Movement, placing the country firmly in the Western sphere of influence, while cultivating decades of hostility between the two neighboring countries. Only now are Beijing and New Delhi beginning to build constructive relations, based on shared economic and political interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A detailed academic investigation reveals that the war was the product of covert CIA manipulations designed to serve Anglo-American interests in the region!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Seed of Doubt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the years leading up to the Sino-Indian War, tensions between China and India had been gradually escalating, partly due to CIA operations supporting Tibetan separatist forces. In 1957, Tibetan rebels, secretly trained in the United States, were parachuted into the region and inflicted heavy casualties on the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. The following year, operations intensified with airdrops of weapons and supplies into Tibet to fuel violent uprisings. It is estimated that up to 80,000 Chinese soldiers were killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mao Zedong became convinced that the Tibetan rebels, although essentially supported by the United States, were receiving significant aid from India and were using the country’s territory as a base of operations. His suspicions were heightened by the March 1959 uprising in Tibet, which led to a mass exodus of refugees to India and the granting of asylum by New Delhi to the Dalai Lama, a leader supported by the CIA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weeks later, at a meeting of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, Mao declared a “counterattack against India’s anti-Chinese activities.” He demanded that the official organs of the CCP \u201cstrongly criticize\u201d the Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, stating that Beijing \u201cshould not hesitate to upset him or cause a rift with him\u201d and that \u201cwe must continue the struggle to the end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was also proposed that \u201cIndian expansionists\u201d be accused of acting \u201cin collusion with British imperialists\u201d to \u201copenly interfere in China\u2019s internal affairs, with the aim of occupying Tibet.\u201d Ironically, Nehru was at the time viewed with suspicion by the West because of his commitment to the Non-Aligned Movement and his socialist policies. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev considered him an important ally and wanted to maintain positive relations. At the same time, the Sino-Soviet Schism, which began in 1956 with Khrushchev’s famous secret speech, they were constantly deepening. Disagreements over India and Tibet further deteriorated relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Role of the CIA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After months of formal denunciations of Nehru\u2019s policy toward Tibet, the Chinese information campaign against India turned into a physical conflict in August 1959, with a series of violent clashes on the border. Nehru immediately asked Moscow for help, prompting a meeting in October 1959 between Khrushchev and top CCP officials at Mao\u2019s official presidential residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khrushchev strongly accused the Chinese of \u201ctheir own fault\u201d for the unrest in Tibet and the conflict with New Delhi. But, unknown to the participants, it had all been set up by the CIA years earlier!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September 1951, a State Department memo stated that \u201cthe United States should use Tibet as a weapon to warn India of the danger of any attempt at rapprochement with any communist government and especially to urge her to a policy of resistance to Chinese communist pressure in South and East Asia.\u201d This strategy led to covert CIA operations in Tibet over the next decade, which intensified with Allen Dulles taking over the CIA in 1953.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A base for the separatists was established at Camp Hale in the Rocky Mountains, where hundreds of fighters were trained for years. The CIA secretly maintained an army of up to 14,000 Tibetan separatists in China. Despite their belief that the US sincerely supported Tibetan independence, the aim was to create security problems for Beijing and to inflict economic and military losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dalai Lama later admitted that the US aid was “a reflection of its anti-communist policy and not genuine support for Tibetan independence”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“All according to plan”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By October 1962, CIA operations in Tibet had caused such irritation in China that PLA forces invaded India. The US had advance knowledge of the military action and sent a telegram to Secretary of State Dean Rusk five days before the war, predicting “serious conflict” and giving instructions on their stance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US would publicly express \u201csympathy for the Indians\u201d without giving rise to accusations of involvement. When New Delhi requested military assistance, the US would respond promptly, providing transportation, communications, and military equipment. Predictably, the war prompted New Delhi to turn to the US for military assistance, causing a shift in policy and leading to greater dependence on the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Party officials, even from Communist and Socialist parties, accepted the help. The CIA operations had triumphed! An internal CIA report in 1960 stated that China\u2019s aggression against India had created \u201ca greater appreciation of the value of a strong Western position in Asia.\u201d However, it was noted that Nehru had no intention of changing the policy of non-alignment.<\/p>\n\n\n

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New Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sino-Indian War changed all that. A CIA report in December 1962 spoke of New Delhi\u2019s \u201ctransformation,\u201d making the country \u201cmore susceptible than ever to US and UK influence, particularly in the military sphere.\u201d In contrast, the Soviet Union saw its relations with India deteriorate, while its relations with China became strained. Since then, New Delhi has been cooperating with Anglo-American intelligence services on Tibet. The specter of the Sino-Indian War has shadowed their relations for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, as Donald Trump has complained, India appears to be lost to Beijing and Russia, and years of US efforts to cultivate hostility have finally failed due to geopolitical realities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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