In July 2013, I was invited to attend a seminar on BHARAT-CHINA border dispute at Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) in New Delhi, addressed by Special Director (Intelligence Bureau) who had been our border-negotiator with China for more than 20 years. The audience mainly comprised of retired diplomats/ ambassadors, DGPs, senior Army / Air Force Commanders and IB officials. Ex-Ambassador to China G. Parthasarathy, Ex-Army Chief Gen. NC Vij and Bangladesh war hero/ex-Panjab Governor/ex-Lt. Governor of Goa, Maj. Gen. JFR Jacob too, were present in the audience.
First-hand details and the analysis he provided with maps and documents were amazing, while conclusions were sensational. I am sharing some of the findings in his language, which I feel, everybody in the country must know.
Regular Chinese intrusions started right in 1954 itself!! In 1959, Nehru wrote a sob-letter to Chinese Prime Minister Chou En Lai in the language of a jilted lover, begging him not to treat us so shabbily!! The Special Director (IB) read out Nehru’s sob-letter before us, and the entire audience was stunned to listen to its contents. All intrusions have been kept classified, and the nation has been kept in the dark for reasons best known to Nehru alone. Several times, the Army took the initiative to be decisively tough with them, but Nehru immediately prevented them from being tough with the Chinese.
Undefined borders due to inhospitable terrains is a myth created by the Chinese. Borders and every inch of it is precisely mapped and defined, and ownership is established with authentic documents.
The truth is that China does not want to solve the border dispute. It is in their benefit to linger on with the dispute/controversy as long as possible.
In reality, there is no border dispute at all. How? In 1892, the then Chinese King submitted a detailed map to the then British Viceroy in New Delhi showing Kailasa Mansarovar, Ladakh, Aksai Chin, and Arunachal Pradesh as Bharatiya territories!! They authenticated it, and the British accepted it and held it as final. It is also confirmed by the then revenue records, still in possession of our Government. And the situation continued so till 1947.
After the Communist takeover of China, they declined to accept those authentic documents anymore. They pressurised the then Dalai Lama to demand Tawang, Sikkim, Bhutan and nearby areas to be ‘returned’ to them!! When he declined, it was probably then Chinese decided to capture Tibet.
In 1954, Nehru signed Panchsheel Agreement with China wherein not a single clause is in favour of Nehru’s India!!! Home Minister Sardar Patel had already started warning Nehru right since 1947 itself, and bureaucrats of the day pressed Nehru not to go ahead with the agreement, but the traitor in Nehru did not yield. At that time, China was a very weak country, desperate to destroy our relations with Tibet and very eager for Bharat to accept Tibet as a Chinese territory.
Intrusions, gun-fire, kidnapping of Bharatiya soldiers, snatching their arms, keeping them captive for days together before releasing, writing rude/stinging letters to Jawaharlal Nehru by the Chinese Prime Minister, became a routine affair immediately after Panchsheel Agreement was signed, since 1954 itself.
Then came the war of 1962 in a self-created pathetic condition of the Army; their inability to fight back for want of ammunition, winter clothing, snow-boots etc., an intentionally invited debacle and humiliation for the nation by design and intent, were entirely a Nehru creation. Our soldiers were brutally murdered, and Nehru just kept mum. The then IAF Chief repeatedly pressed Nehru for permission to bombard Chinese intruders, but Nehru was resolute in denying them the consent. That permission would have entirely changed the contours of the war.
Line of Actual Control (LAC) is a myth created by the Chinese according to their convenience. They continue shifting LAC towards Bharat, on the table, on the ground, everywhere!!!
Bharatiya Army have been ordered by the Royal Dynasty of Nehru-Gandhi-Vadra of Congress to follow the Line of Patrolling!!! It is LOP that our Army is ordered to follow and not Lac! Certainly, LOP is far behind LAC! Royal Dynasty of Nehru-Gandhi-Vadra never utters the word ‘LOP’ in public, as it wants to hoodwink the nation.
After 2008, there has been a spurt in intrusions ranging from 400 to 500 on land/air/water…that too aggressive in nature, not ordinary ones.
All their intrusions are mainly confined to the area that may be called the corridor between Bharat and Tibet as well as Bharat and Xinjiang, the largest province of China. They are worried about the Bharatiya Army entering Tibet and Xinjiang as these two regions are under considerable turmoil of rebellion. Self-immolations in Tibet and armed revolt with two-way bloodshed in Xinjiang province are matter of great concern for the Chinese. So they are actually afraid of Bharat!
Whenever the Chinese raise the banner saying Indians go back, Jawans of ITBP are under explicit instructions to raise the banner saying,Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai! I pointedly asked the IB official why our Government have been so timid and submissive in their responses. He said there has been no valid, convincing reason!!! May be some foreign pressure, he guessed. After all, he was speaking in public!! Military threat coupled with arm-twisting diplomacy shall certainly force them out of our occupied territory. But then, for that, we need a Sardar Patel/Narendra Modi as Prime Minister and not Nehru/Manmohan Singh.
It was a stunning eye-opener for the entire audience.
