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Nehru's #AksaiChin Blunder! A must read. Both Indian & Chinese maps showed AksaiChin to be in India. In the 1950s Chinese built a road through Indian territory. Pt Nehru came to know but chose to keep quiet. Didnt confront China either. Historical blunders google.com/amp/s/m.rediff…
India Today has accessed Ladakh Tehsil map of early 1909 and Chinese official maps of 1893 showing #Aksaichin & Galwan river valley, Depsang etc to be part of Ladakh, India. Yet India did not press territorial claims effectively.
In 1960 Lt Gen SPP Thorat, then army commander eastern command after a year long assessment war gamed Chinese incursions. Exercise Lal Qila was conducted. Sadly professional military advice was ignored by VK Krishna Menon, then Raksha Mantri, I report indiatoday.in/india/north/st…
