India and China are two powerful and ambitious modern states, nuclear powers, neighbours and old civilisations with a long history. However, for over fifty years, the sole conflict between the two nations that occupied collective memories is the 1962 India-China war. It was a war which China won and India lost. However, there was another conflict five years later.
In 1967, India and China fought again, on the heights of Cho La and Nathu La at the India-China border near the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim. This time, India triumphed. These battles of 1967 restored parity between the two nations and revived India’s pride after the defeat earlier.
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