[harichinnan]

India and China recently ended up at war. 20 Indian soldiers died and an undisclosed number of Chinese soldiers died during a primitive battle with Kung Fu sticks and stones. There's an agreement on not using firearms in conflicts and that has held up for some 60 years. There's no reason to believe this would be an all out war anytime soon.

[fierarul]

> There's an agreement on not using firearms in conflicts and that has held up for some 60 years.

This is the first time I heard about this and a quick search confirms it's true. Amazing!

[PostThisTooFast]

Really? This deserves a post of its own!

[thewhitetulip]

it won't be that big. After 1962, Mao was the Chinese Primier and Nehru was Indian PM.

Right after the cuban missile crisis was solved, UK and US started dropping military equipment to help India.

Mao then did a single handed ceasefire and retreated back to the original places.

then a peace summit happened and India China decided to not indulge in a firefight at the border again.

And now China had started meddling in Indian affairs, after weeks of tensions, I don't know what Indian govt did, but tensions were de escalated.

Yes, sadly, both sides lost lives, but the thing is CCP has now claimed a Russian port of Vladivostok (I read in the news), it has claimed Bhutan, and Ladhak in India and it has always claimed Arunachal Pradesh (India)

[atheist_int]

Quick chime in regarding arms supply post cuban missile and 1962 Sino-China War: While US and UK definitely gave arms to India, they refused to supply advanced machinery and weapons. This is where the Soviets were glad to step in, and henceforth was one of the major reasons why in the latter half of the Cold War the India sort of allied with the Soviets; while the NATO block in general sided with Pakistan (whose really close ally was also China).