China\'s Quest. The History of the Foreign Relations of the People\'s Republic of China - John Garver

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Chapter 6. Sino-Indian Conflict and the Sino-Soviet Alliance

1. Steven A. Hoffmann, India and the China Crisis, Berkeley: University of California
   Press, 1990.


2. P.  B. Sinha and A.  A. Athale, History of the Conflict with China, 1962, New
   Delhi: History Division, Ministry of Defense, Government of India, 1992, p. 28. Leaked
   and published online by the Times of India in December 2002. Available at http://www.
   bharat-rakshak.com.


3. Regarding the 1959 uprising, see Tsering Shakya, The Dragon in the Land of Snows,
   London: Pimlico, 1999. Frank Moraes, The Revolt in Tibet, New Delhi: Srishti, 1960.


4. Wu Lengxi, Shinian lunzhan, zhong su guanxi huiyilu, 1956–1966 (Ten-year polem-
   ical war, a memoir of Sino-Soviet relations), Vol. I, Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian chuban-
   she, 1999, pp. 197–9.


5. Quoted in John Garver, “China’s Decision for War with India in 1962,” in New
   Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy, edited by Alastair Ian Johnson and
   Robert S. Ross, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006, pp. 86–130, p. 94.


6. “The Revolution in Tibet and Nehru’s Philosophy,” in Concerning the Question of
   Tibet, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1959, pp. 239–76.


7. Garver, “China’s Decision,” p. 95.


8. For an assessment of Nehru’s probable knowledge of CIA Tibetan operations, see
   John W. Garver, “India, China, the United States, Tibet, and the Origins of the 1962 War,”
   India Review, vol. 3, no. 2 (April 2004), pp. 171–82.


9. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 210–4.


10. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 226–7.


11. Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, p. 269.


12. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, p. 205.


13. Donald Zagoria, Sino-Soviet Conflict, 1956–1961, New  York:  Atheneum, 1969,
    pp. 241–2.


14. A good collection of documents from Khrushchev’s visit is Khrushchev in America,
    New York: Crosscurrents, 1960.


15. “Memorandum of Conversation N.  S. Khrushchev and Mao Zedong, Beijing, 2
    October 1959,” IHCWP Bulletin, issue 12, no. 13 (Fall–Winter 2001), pp. 262–70.


16. Ibid.


17. Khrushchev seems to be alluding here to the September 1958 Soviet reply to Mao’s
    offer to dilute the Soviet obligation to come to China’s assistance in the event of war with
    the United States.


18. The Far Eastern Republic was nominally independent but actually a Bolshevik
    puppet state set up following Japan’s intervention in the Russian Far East during the
    Russian Civil War and designed as a buffer between Bolshevik Russia and Imperial
    Japan’s interventionist military forces. It was dissolved by the Bolsheviks in 1922 fol-
    lowing Japan’s withdrawal from eastern Siberia.


19. “Memorandum of conversation N. S. Khrushchev and Mao Zedong,” pp. 268–9.


20. William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, New York: W. W. Norton,
    2003, p. 394.


21. This section follows Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 236–47.


22. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 290, 207–10.


23. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 279–91.