Pub Date : 2020-02-06DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190064341.003.0004
F. Frankel
Nehru considered the establishment of Mao’s People’s Republic of China an event of historical importance, transcending the Cold War and signaling the resurgence of free Asia. But China had never accepted the northern boundary with India, known as the McMahon Line, asserting it had been drawn by British imperialists intent on diminishing its control over Tibet. India, militarily much weaker than China, adopted a policy of unwavering friendship toward China as the best approach to securing a diplomatic solution to the border dispute. Once China entered an alliance with the Soviet Union, the United States perceived an expanded communist threat. Nehru, reiterating India’s nonalignment, advanced the notion of Asianism to consolidate Indian-China solidarity.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-06DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190064341.003.0001
F. Frankel
Nehru’s forceful arguments that Asia would emerge from the retreat of British colonialism with new strength and vitality to become subjects of foreign policy found no place in Washington’s bipolar view of the world at the onset of the Cold War. Kennan’s famous formulation of containment viewed the newly independent states as backward and dependent peoples open to Soviet support and enabling Moscow to put their own puppet regimes in power. In contrast, Nehru assumed that India was destined to become a great power and the pivot around which security problems of Asia and the Indian Ocean would have to be considered. He looked toward China, still engaged in a civil war with the communists, as sharing a common outlook.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-06DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190064341.003.0002
F. Frankel
The partition of India into the two independent states of India and Pakistan created strategic anomalies. India lost the advantage of its own geographic position, which had placed it across the Arabian Sea close to the sea lanes leading to the Persian Gulf in the west and astride the Bay of Bengal adjacent to Southeast Asia on the east. Pakistan, divided by one thousand miles of Indian territory, was considered virtually indefensible without a powerful ally—most obviously, the United States. As the Cold War took hold, India’s potential as a great power counted for less than Pakistan’s strategic location close to the oil fields of the Middle East. Nehru believed India’s decision to join the British Commonwealth protected India from sloping too much toward the United States.
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Pub Date : 2020-02-06DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190064341.003.0009
F. Frankel
Strategic realignments in Asia after the 1962 India-China war are still playing out. China’s attempt to bottle up India in the subcontinent resulted in an “all-weather” China-Pakistan friendship, including transfer of blueprints for a nuclear bomb. The 1973 India-Pakistan war and the creation of Bangladesh changed the political map of the subcontinent. China’s rapid economic growth and military modernization now challenges US primacy in Asia, its long-sought goal since the Korean War. An Indian-US strategic partnership remains under discussion.
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