01041pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002100040245004400061260000900105300001300114362001100127520065700138650003800795650002800833773003400861180718b1999   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMaxwell, Neville  aSino-Indian border dispute reconsidered  c1999  ap.905-18  a10 Apr  aThe Nehru government sought to decide for itself where India's borders with China should lie and then impose the alignments it had chosen on Beijing, refusing to negotiate them. That meant that unless Beijing surrendered to India's territorial claims to Aksai Chin and areas north of the McMahon Line conflict was inevitable. China's military action in 1962 was reactive and pre-emptive, and that India suffered `unprovoked aggression' is a self-serving myth. That there has been no settlement of the Sino-Indian borders is the consequence of Nehru's policies, to which successor governments, except Narasimha Rao's, have strictly adhered. - Reproduced  aIndia - Foreign relations - China  aInternational relations  aEconomic and Political Weekly