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India’s External Relations
Describe any four issues of conflict between India and China.
The issues of conflict between India and China:
(i) China tookover Tibet in 1950.
(ii) Tibetan spiritual leader sought and obtained political asylum in India in 1959.
(iii) Competing territorial claims principally in Arunachal Pradesh and Aksai Chin region of Ladakh.
(iv) China occupied the Aksai-chin area in the Ladhak region of Jammu and Kashmir and had built a strategic road there.
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(a) India’s Nuclear policy
(b) Consensus in foreign policy matters.
“Broadly, non-alignment means not tying yourself off with military blocs... It means trying to view things, as far as possible, not from the military point of view, though that has to come in sometimes, but independently, and trying to maintain friendly relations with all countries. ” —Jawaharlal Nehru
(a) Why does Nehru want to keep off military blocs ?
(b) Do you think that the Indo-Soviet friendship treaty violated the principle of non-alignment ? Give reasons for your answer.
(c) If there were no military blocs, do you think non-alignment would have been unnecessary ?
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