In the following year, it ordered the 'Forward Policy', under which the Indian Army relentlessly attacked the People's Liberation Army's posts along the entire border and killed many Chinese soldiers in an attempt to extrude them out of all the Chinese territory it claimed.
This aggressive and provocative policy not only interrupted the status quo, but also breached the peace and tranquillity along the entire border. In October 1962, Nehru ordered the army to take the offensive and made a statement about it on the 12th of the same month. His statement shocked the whole world. The New York Herald Tribune published an editorial entitled 'Nehru Declares A War Against China' the following day.
All honest and sober-minded people could see that the 1962 war was imposed on China by the Nehru government. China had no other way out but to launch a counter-attack and take preventive action. The purposes were:
To defend peace and tranquillity along the entire border; To bring the Nehru government back to the negotiating table.
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by murli nair on Mar 26, 2008 03:29 PM Permalink
you are a fool living in a fool's paradise. What happened are dead ashes. Analyse and react to the realities today. China still claims indian land, it help india's enemies to develop nuclear weapons, it has encircled india with posts in coco islands, observations posts in bangladesh etc. we have tried to win over our neighbours, it has not worked.
