Protecting India's geopolitical interests
Jawaharlal Nehru, the idealist that he was, wanted an Asian axis with India and China together. He wanted these two great ancient civilisations to come together to play a major role in the global arena. The realistic Chinese leadership never had such illusions and in the 1950s concentrated only in annexing Tibet and Aksai Chin area in the 1962 Indo-China war which provided them the strategic link between Tibet and Xinjiang province. The action of China in '50s and early '60s proved what matters to nations is the strategic interest but not shared values and histories and cultural affinity. China has grown from strength to strength from then onwards in terms of the size of its economy. An economy which was of the size of US $ 60,000 million in 1960s, today is around US $ 14 trillion. Also Read - Climate change stripping Ladakh of its very identity During the same period Indian economy has grown from US $ 37000 million to US $ 2.6 trillion. We are in terms of shee...