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china jagat s mehta
Engaging with China
Competition between
the uncaged elephant and the inscrutable dragon is inevitable. Jagat
Mehta paints the history of encounters on a wider canvas of the
civilisational identities and ideological aspirations of India and
China.
My
interaction with China started when I was transferred as deputy
secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs in 1956. The deputy
secretary (East) had four sections under him. They were Nepal (N),
Bhutan, Sikkim and Tibet (BST), East Asia (EA) which dealt with China,
Japan, Mongolia and North and South Koreas, and of course NEFA. China as
part of the eastern division was the least burdensome. Reports did come
from Tokyo and Peking (now Beijing), but the order sections took up
most of the time. My chief concern was NEFA. READ MORE
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