Panchsheel agreement between India and China broke India's back

On April 29, India will ‘celebrate’ 60 years of the Panchsheel Agreement with China. But is there anything to celebrate? What JB Kripalani once called an “agreement born-in-sin”, is the worst blunder Jawaharlal Nehru ever committed. The 1962 border war was only a consequence of that original ‘sin’. Nehru is often eulogised for having introduced the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence into foreign policy; he shouldn’t be.

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