History will always be cruel to those who refuse to learn from history, as George Santayana said. But this is what has been practiced by the successive ruling dispensations in New Delhi vis-à-vis dealing with the Communist regime of Beijing. From the time of signing the futile Panchsheel Agreement with China’s Premier Zhou en Lai in 1954 and even after Beijing’s infamous 1962 perfidy as well as uncountable numbers of ‘pin-pricking’ border incursions questioning the very sovereignty of India over its own Arunachal Pradesh (AP) and Pak Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (POJK), India still takes ‘pride’ (in spite of daily humiliation!) over its great stupidity (or timidity?) called ‘unequivocal commitment’ to “One China” Policy.
History will always be cruel to those who refuse to learn from history, as George Santayana said. But this is what has been practiced by the successive ruling dispensations in New Delhi vis-à-vis dealing with the Communist regime of Beijing. From the time of signing the futile Panchsheel Agreement with China’s Premier Zhou en Lai in 1954 and even after Beijing’s infamous 1962 perfidy as well as uncountable numbers of ‘pin-pricking’ border incursions questioning the very sovereignty of India over its own Arunachal Pradesh (AP) and Pak Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (POJK), India still takes ‘pride’ (in spite of daily humiliation!) over its great stupidity (or timidity?) called ‘unequivocal commitment’ to “One China” Policy.