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Originally Posted by malaymishra123

The plan had long been dropped. Those plans were acceptable in '62. Not when US wanted a rapproachment with China to counter USSR and considered Pakistan pivotal to Sino-American relationship.
Nixon had also visited China.

I seriously doubt you have ever spent time studying that independently. Remind you, the documents I quoted are specifically for 1971, not 1962. In addition, Indo-US Air Defence Agreement of July 1963 (mainly against China) could still be invoked. (BTW, one can’t help but think an incredible India that benefited from both evil communist and ugly anti-communist at the same time.)

If you think US would seriously attack India, it’s a joke.

And ofcourse it was also the US who encouraged China to make military moves to deter India to act against Pakistan.

Ofcourse, all Nixon said seems to be opposite to his actions in that period. The fact at the end of the day is he sent his fleet to intimidate India.

Fortunately, Mao saw it through wisely.

Exactly. And that is one of the reasons why China could not even think about invading India. Because of the Treaty of Friendship with USSR. Any invasion of China in India would have led to USSR making military moves against China. Quid Pro Quo. China couldnt have done anything even if it had wanted to.

As a mater of fact, China was well prepared for possible Soviet invasion. Across China, there were trenches and supplies… A-bombs were rumored set-up north and northwest of China waiting for Soviet mechanized troops…

Nonetheless, a big conflict was calculated not for the best, as both China and US needed to ally to face the same expanding evil, and popular emotion would be stirred up again for fighting against communist countries, which include China.

Successful? You call splitting of Pakistan in half successful for China? China's aim was to ensure that Pakistan was not broken up.

Or according to you, China only guaranteed that West Pakistan would not be attacked? Lol. Tell me your joking. At that time, it was Pakistan which was attacked directly by India and split in half. At that time, it was not the Pakistan as it exists today. China failed to stop India in attacking "Pakistan".

Frankly, breaking a country in half qualifies as an existential threat, and China or US could prevent it.

And China moved its troops to the border to warn against any Indian aggression in East Pakistan. And then the Indian Army walked in Pakistan and converted half to Bangladesh...Precisely what China threatened against. And what did China do while India carried out its operations-which were quite open and long actually? Twiddle its thumbs.

Like i said, moving of Chinese troops to the Indian-Chinese border was just posturing, and it made a fool out of China. India did exactly what it wanted to do despite China's threats of aggression in the North.

China cannot, even if it wants to protect Pakistan physically. It has failed to do so in the past as well. And by physically, i mean that starting a war against India, not sending troops to Pakistan to fight alongside them!

This exactly shows the wisdom of Chinese leaders: they didn’t have to send troop to invade or fight to win what desired: an independent Pakistan; they just had to ship out some warnings to reach their goal. “The great general is one who finds a way to win without fighting” <<The Art of War>>

AS far as EP is concerned, CPC knows it to the core that if its own people wanted split, no one can stop it, much less a foreign force.

As Bangladesh stands today it is still China’s friend, isn’t it?

Lol. You have serious problems in understanding the military capabilities of Bangladeshi Army or Navy if you think they can even begin to stop an Indian attack on Bangladesh.

Military serves only an extension of politics. Your imperialistic desire, a reflection of your bad politics, of attacking Bangladesh will surely meet blowing resistance even if Bangladesh is weaker.

Secondly, with their new govt in power, i see Bangladesh becoming more and more friendly with India day by day.

Truly hope GoI will learn a lesson or two to ameliorate its relationship with its neighboring countries.

You deliberately try to obfuscate the issues. We are talking about Russian help in technology and equipment during the USSR days, not the present day Russia.

Soviet was Russia in the core. Amazing you can deny that.

It seems however that you are the one with some twisted views that have been running rampantly in China with goverment encouragement ofcourse!

Sorry to disappoint you, I’m fortunate to possess the capability that allows me to gather information from West as well as from East without much language barriers, and to think independently without being bound ideologically. Keep indulging in your own imagination or following your homemade propagandas as you wish.

BTW, if you feel still compelled to talk 71, please open another thread.