I alluded to Claude Arpi’s excellent article in my previous post, “India, China and Arunachal Pradesh…are we missing something?” and promised some excerpts. Here they are:
Excerpts:
“But let us go back two years earlier. In April 1954, India and China had signed the ‘Agreement on Trade and Intercourse between the Tibet region of China and India,’ known as the ‘Panchsheel Agreement.’
Less than three months later, the first Chinese intrusions occurred on the Tibet-UP border (in a place called Barahoti). It was the beginning of hundreds of such intrusions.
…Delhi did not know …