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The Sino–Indian War, also known as the China–India War or the Indo–China War, was an armed conflict between China and India that took place from October to November 1962. It was a military escalation of the Sino–Indian border dispute .
The Sino–Indian border dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute over the sovereignty of two relatively large, and several smaller, separated pieces of territory between China and India. The territorial disputes between the two countries result from the historical consequences of colonialism in Asia and the lack of clear historical boundary ...
The China–India border, showing two large disputed areas in Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh and several smaller disputes (a map by the CIA). The Joint Working Group (JWG) was the first official bilateral administrative mechanism formed after the 1962 Sino-Indian War by India and China to discuss the boundary question with the aim of finding a solution.
Despite broader setbacks for India in other areas during the war, the victory at Galwan remains a point of pride for the Indian Army. The battle also foreshadowed the strategic importance of the Galwan Valley, which continues to be contested in the ongoing India-China border disputes. [8]
The two countries have been uneasy neighbours for decades after a bloody border war in 1962. India's foreign ministry said in a statement that both ministers agreed on the need to work with ...
The Sino-Indian War was the result of long-standing border disputes between India and China. In particular, the Chinese government refused to recognize the McMahon Line, which had been established as the boundary between British India and Tibet in 1914. [5]
Disputed territories of India. Border disputes resulted in a short border war between the People's Republic of China and India on 20 October 1962. [82] The border clash resulted in an overall defeat of India as the PRC pushed the Indian forces to within 48 km of the Assam plains in the northeast.
A long series of events triggered the Sino-Indian War in 1962. According to John W. Garver, Chinese perceptions about the Indian designs for Tibet, and the failure to demarcate a common border between China and India (including the Indian Forward Policy) [1] [2] were important in China's decision to fight a war with India.