New study says US covert strategy, not border dispute, drove the 1962 India

A new study published in a leading United States academic journal argues that the 1962 India-China war was driven not primarily by border disagreements or diplomatic failures, as long accepted in mainstream historical accounts, but by a deliberate American strategy pursued through the 1950s and early 1960s.

Drawing on declassified CIA records, diplomatic archives at the Prime Minister’s Museum & Library (PMML), the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), and documents from the Cold War International History Project, the seminal research challenges long-held narratives about the conflict. The findings -- “Unravelling the Geopolitical Dimensions of the 1962 Sino–Indian Conflict: How the US Shaped the Sino–India Split” -- appeared in the April edition of the Journal of Public Affairs