Sino-Indian Border Confrontations (1959-1988)
Protracted border dispute, culminating in a war in 1962 between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and India that compromised India’s standing among nonaligned nations and has not yet been settled. While the dispute between the PRC and India, a nonaligned nation, became an issue in the context of the Cold War, the origins of the Sino-Indian conflict date back…
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