"Yes, I Saw The Chinese": Air Force Pilot's Top Secret Op During 1962 War
Stories Of Glory "To find us, you must be good. To catch us, you must be fast, but to beat us....you must be kidding" - Indian Air Force Cloud Of War The People's Liberation Army under Chairman Mao incorporated Sinkiang (Xinjiang) into the People's Republic of China in 1949 and had now set its eyes on Tibet, a vast area of plateaus and mountains. The Indian government under Jawahar Lal Nehru did not foresee any threat coming from China at the time. Mao's China annexed Tibet in 1950, and Nehru, in order to woo the Chinese, stopped selling arms to the Tibetans in 1950 and pulled the Indian Army out of strategic Indian outposts of Shigatse, Gartok, and Yatung in the Tibetan plateau, which were established during the British rule after the Treaty of Lhasa in 1904. The 'Hindi-Chinni bhai bhai' period ended when Mao backstabbed India by building the Tibet-Xinjiang highway, which passed through the now-captured Aksai Chin region. The Chinese had moved inside I