This absorbing and closely documented book challenges the conventional wisdom about the Sino/Indian conflict which reached its climax in the border war of 1962. Reasonable, peaceable India, victim of unprovoked Chinese aggression --- such is the general view. But Neville Maxwell's dispassionate account of the policies and actions which led to the border war shows that the truth was very different.
First recounting the history of the disputed boundaries, the author shows that a diplomatic settlement need not have been difficult to achieve --- then traces the policy decisions taken in India early in the 1950s which blocked the way. The failed Nehru/Chou Enlai summit meeting in New Dehli in 1960 marked the effective end to any hopes of a negotiated settlement. After that another story begins; the attempt of the Indian government to use military force to push the Chinese out of territory India claimed and the resistance of the Army to a policy which the soldiers knew was wholly beyond their power to implement.
That resistance was eroded by politics and favouritism and late in 1961 India launched the "Forward policy", a direct military challenge to China. The point of unavoidable collision approached through the following summer and was reached in the climax of the border war, which saw India's army in the north-east shatter under the Chinese assault.
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India's China War 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
在写这个书评之前,本人还未有幸阅读本书。按照常理来讲,是没有资格来写的,但是还是见猎心喜,耐不住心痒,胡乱诌几句。 三联书店出版的书,应当是还不错的,毕竟人家也是有把关的。 1971年出版,本人觉得这或许是个敏感的年份,70年代的旧事在这里就不赘言了,大家都知道。...
评分记得一个说法:美国议员们质询美军将领,是谁发动了中印战争,将领回答,是印度。理由是爆发战斗的地方已经越过中印争端地区,处于中国一方,这样谁打第一枪已经不是重点了。作者应该也是持同样立场,否则标题就应该是“中国对印战争”。 看完之后我的想法是,印度政府以及尼赫...
评分印度人的思维方式就是:只要我认定的,那么我就是对的。这一点,在我三十年与印度人交往中深有体会,我从来没有从印度人那里讨到过任何的“便宜”,或者说我从来就没有胜利过。所以,我的做法就是,敬而远之。其实印度人的思维方式,与犹太人有相似之处:敬业及团结,对内勾心...
评分印度人的思维方式就是:只要我认定的,那么我就是对的。这一点,在我三十年与印度人交往中深有体会,我从来没有从印度人那里讨到过任何的“便宜”,或者说我从来就没有胜利过。所以,我的做法就是,敬而远之。其实印度人的思维方式,与犹太人有相似之处:敬业及团结,对内勾心...
评分印度人的思维方式就是:只要我认定的,那么我就是对的。这一点,在我三十年与印度人交往中深有体会,我从来没有从印度人那里讨到过任何的“便宜”,或者说我从来就没有胜利过。所以,我的做法就是,敬而远之。其实印度人的思维方式,与犹太人有相似之处:敬业及团结,对内勾心...
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Neville Maxwell is uniquely qualified to write this book. He reported these events for The Times as their South Asia correspondent, augmenting and reappraising his understanding of the dispute as a senior fellow at the London School of Oriental and African Studies. In his research, he was given access to unpublished Indian government papers and reports.
Born in London in 1926, Neville Maxwell went to school in Australia, served in the AIF in 1945, and continued his education at McGill University and Cambridge. Working first as a reporter in Australia, he joined The Times in 1955 and spent three years in the Washington bureau before coming to New Delhi in August 1959 as South Asia correspondent. He held this assignment for eight years, travelling widely through India and the sub-continent; and left in July 1967 to make a study of the Sino-Indian dispute as a senior fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London University. He is now joining the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at Oxford.
阿三六十年来真心是没什么长进……
评分阿三六十年来真心是没什么长进……
评分阿三六十年来真心是没什么长进……
评分阿三六十年来真心是没什么长进……
评分“你不问,我就不主动提。英国抢的就是我的。跟你来往已经是给你面子,不要把理所当然的事情和我讨价还价”:当年的三哥恰独立门户,风华正茂,亲美苏又自立不结盟运动领主,自然有自信看不起叫花子一样的新中国。对照今天印度的对华战略,简直就是个死亡游轮循环。
India's China War 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书