Here is an article from Chinese scholar, I think this sums up China's view of the Sino Indian conflict. From March 2013 to April 2014, the author was the Second Secretary of the political office of the Embassy of PRC in India. Baidu translation below.
Title: Lin MinWang：India wants to be a great power? There is still a long way to go
In the past two days, news from India and the border between China and India has suddenly increased again. What's more, the seriousness of the situation may be quite complicated.An important signal is that from August 31 to September 1, in just two days, the Western Theater of war, the Chinese Embassy in India and the Chinese Ministry of foreign affairs successively expressed their views on the consensus reached in the multi-level talks between the two sides at the early stage of the destruction of the Indian army on August 31, and illegally crossed the line again on the South Bank of Bangong Lake and near the reqin mountain pass, openly provoked, resulting in tense border situation and intensive warnings.
Senior Colonel Zhang Shuiyuan, spokesman of the western war zone, used "two serious" to define the Indian behavior: It has seriously violated China's territorial sovereignty and seriously damaged the peace and stability in the border areas between China and India. It not only directly points out the bad degree of Indian behavior, but also serves as an important reminder.It is worth noting that Mr. Zhang also used two words to describe Indian behavior: “treachery” and “act in bad faith”. If we say "two serious" is to illustrate the nature of the problem, the above-mentioned eight words show that the Indian side's illegal cross-border action completely abandoned its previous commitment, which is mutually verifiable with their own so-called "preemptive" mentioned by them later.
01 We underestimated the meanness of India's methods
In fact, India's despicability has always been like this. The war of 1962 has become a collective historical memory for the whole country of India. For so many years, India has never accepted this failure. This kind of reluctance is not only reflected in its self justification that "at that time, we were not ready at all, China won't win" or "we were preparing to act seriously, but as a result, China took the initiative to retreat".
In fact, it also reflected in its many domestic policies, the most obvious of which was India's practices towards Chinese Indians. After the war of 1962, Chinese Americans in India were actually the group that suffered the most, and this kind of harm has actually continued to this day. Before the war, there were about 40000 Chinese Americans in India, and so far only less than 4000.
In 1959, India began to suspect the overseas Chinese in India, suspected that they might be Chinese spies, and began to arrest them. Six days after the war began in 1962, India issued laws and regulations for Chinese. It is stipulated that if one of the parents is a Chinese, then you are not considered an Indian Citizen regardless of whether you have acquired Indian nationality before.
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So later, according to the so-called defense of India regulations, India arrested overseas Chinese in India on a large scale, with a total of more than 3000 people.
What is the purpose of this? It's in exchange for prisoners of war.
During the Sino Indian War, China captured nearly 4000 Indian prisoners of war, but India did not capture one. So India wanted to capture the overseas Chinese in India in this way to exchange prisoners of war with China. However, China treats Indian prisoners of war very favorably, giving them good food and drink, and treating their wounds and diseases. Where did India catch the Chinese and overseas Chinese?They were put in a concentration camp in Rajasthan, where many people were treated inhumanely, and more than 20 people died before and after. Later, China took back about 2000 overseas Chinese, and later mainly settled in Dali, Yunnan and Zhanjiang, Guangdong.
Some of the overseas Chinese went out from the concentration camps in India, and the situation was even worse. Why?
Because at that time, India confiscated all the properties of Chinese companies and overseas Chinese in India in accordance with the administrative order of national defense regulations.View attachment 63158
A few years ago, there was a statistic that said that the total number of properties confiscated by Chinese citizens was about 149. For more than 50 years, expatriates in Indian and Chinese companies have asked the Indian government to return the property through various channels, but India has not paid attention to it.
As far as India's diplomacy is concerned, the war in 1962 broke India's dream of engaging in great power diplomacy, making India's status as a great power rapidly declined at that time. Because Nehru had always wanted to establish a third pole in the bipolar system, but after the outbreak of the war in 1962, he quickly allied with the United States, asked for military aid from the Soviet Union, and even asked the United States to protect its air defense.
Therefore, India's nonalignment policy naturally went bankrupt.
India originally wanted to be nonaligned and to play with its relations with the major powers, but the war of 1962 broke this situation and made it unable to play the ball of great powers any more. It turned out that the United States wanted to help India to curb Communist China, but as a result, India lost miserably.
Therefore, when it came to the Johnson administration, the United States believed that India did not have much strategic value. By the time of Nixon, the relationship between India and the United States was at its lowest point.
But on the other hand, the war of 1962 also changed the situation in which India was scattered in the past. On the contrary, the feeling of retaliation against China made all parties in India more united, and this influence has continued to this day.
