01092pab a2200169 454500 180718b1999 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Maxwell, Neville Sino-Indian border dispute reconsidered 1999 p.905-18 10 Apr The 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 India - Foreign relations - China International relations Economic and Political Weekly 40631 40631 40631 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 35, Issue no: 15 AR41006 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR