The other side of the Dragon - Mayank Singh

In historic archival documents, two researchers have found evidence of strong Sino-Indian cooperation in the fight against colonialism in the early decades of the 20th century, reports Mayank Singh

Most contemporary research on China and India is focused on the 1962 conflict and its aftermath, or on the strategic and foreign policy issues in Sino-Indian relations. Few are aware of the substantial late 19th and early 20th century interactions between the two nations.

Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh and later Subhash Chandra Bose had the support of the Chinese government during the 1930s and early 1940s. This support was not just moral in nature. There was a full-fledged armed training institute for Indians in Shanghai.It was from the early decades of the 29th century, individual Indians began to travel to China, and some Indian groups and associations like the Hindustani Ghadar Party, the Indian National Congress and the Indian National Army established their presence there.

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Do you think India has not changed its approach towards the boundary issue in the last 50 years? 

Every Indian government since Jawaharlal Nehru formulated this policy has sustained his obdurate refusal to submit Indian territorial claims to the internationally accepted procedure of boundary settlement — diplomatic negotiations. (All China's other neighbours have amicably settled their borders in this way.)