The India-Pakistan Crisis and Chinese Strategyby J. R. Nyquist Everyone is talking about the worsening relations between India and Pakistan, the two emerging nuclear powers of Asia. What is hardly mentioned is the role of China as Pakistan's supporter and India's enemy. Americans may not appreciate the extent to which China and India are hostile to one another. After consolidating its conquest of Tibet in the 1950s, China did not accept the pre-existing Tibetan-Indian border. China and India began to fight in October-November 1962 when Indian patrols discovered a Chinese military road running through disputed territory. Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal...
