'Expansionist' Nehru, Tibetan autonomy, 'New China' – why Mao went to war with India in 1962

New Delhi: Sixty years ago, as the world nervously watched the US and the Soviet Union lock horns in the Cuban missile crisis, China and India went to war. While Indian academics, defence experts, and diplomats have picked apart where India went 'wrong', there is a dearth of material in the public domain on China's motives behind the 1962 War. As international affairs expert John W. Garver points out, little was published in China about why Chinese Premier Mao Zedong decided to go to war — unlike with the Korean War, the Indochina wars, and conflicts over the Offshore Islands…