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Describe any four long-term implications of the conflict of 1962 between India and China.

Answer:

The long term implications due to war with China, Nehru was criticised, then defence minister V. Krishna Menon resigned.

The relation with China experienced friendly gestures from India as India signed popular ?Panchsheel? to develop Indo China relations in 1954 and advocated China?s membership to the United Nations. Still after 1957, various contentious issues arose in Indo-China relations-

(i) In 1962, military conflict over a border dispute over the MacMohan line resulted an unwarranted claim by China which lies now in Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin regions of Ladakh.

(ii) Differences arose from. Chinese takeover oi Tibet in 1950 which was protested by India against China.

(iii) After Panchsheel, attack by China on India in 1962, to occupies larger territories of India, created a humiliation.

(iv) Apart

(v) China?s assistance to Pakistan?s nuclear programme also created differences.

(vi) China?s military relation with Pakistan, Bangla Desh and Myanmar were viewed as hostile to Indian interest.