How two dimensions of India’s diplomacy in the framework of the 1971 India-Pakistan war helped in removing the consideration of the 'situation in the India/Pakistan subcontinent' from the UNSC’s agenda till today.
“This was the week that changed the world” was Richard Nixon’s summing up at the end of his trip to China in February 1972.1 The hyperbole was justified, for this visit to China by an American president was a turning point in the cold war. Hitherto, the Soviet Union and China had been antagonists of the US. Thereafter, both Beijing and Moscow found it in their interest to come
As Beijing and Moscow are once again enjoying “a golden age” quite akin to the heady days of the 1950s will these nettlesome historical issues continue to impact the otherwise blossoming partnership?
Nikolai Ignatiev’s rescue of the inhabitants of the Chinese capital was of enormous significance for the history of not only China, but the entire Russian Far East.