“75 years on: Why India’s hasty recognition of Red China remains a strategic folly”, First Post, December 27, 2025
“Seven and a half decades ago, an event largely forgotten today took place; it would become a turning point in the history of the Asian nations. It not only changed the fate of a small (not by size) nation, Tibet, but also triggered ripples (not to say a tsunami) which still endure along the entire northern border of India, wiping out its serenity.
India decided in a hurry to recognise Red China without obtaining any guarantees for its own security.
It began on New Year’s Eve; on December 31, 1949, the Government of India pushed through the recognition of the new regime in Beijing……”
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