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“We see the most aggressive form of imperialism functioning across our borders in India,” pronounced Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru at the height of border clashes with China in 1962. Stunned and outraged by Beijing’s strategic offensive across the heavily-contested Himalayan borders, he accused China of “invading a friendly country without rhyme or reason or excuse and justifying it by saying that they are being attacked”. After years of courting Chinese support for the international Non-Aligned Movement, Nehru called China “this so called anti-imperialist country becoming itself an imperialist of the worst kind”. Despite the testy rhetoric and bloody skirmishes,...
