No bullets were fired but the Indian army stopped China from building the road. Delhi, however, perceived this as an unacceptable change to the status quo with potentially serious strategic ramifications, leading to the Indian army trespassing into the area. The row between Beijing and New Delhi began in June when China tried to construct a road in its disputed area with Bhutan, the Doklam Plateau in Tibet, which doesn’t have any land contact with India. And with no end in sight, the current tensions between India and China in the Bhutan tri-junction may repeat history. In his book The Himalayan Blunder, Dalvi openly narrated the causes that led to the shameful defeat of India. During the war, Dalvi was the commander of the Indian seventh Brigade, which after the defeat led to his capture by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China on Oct 22 nd 1962. The Sino-Indian war of 1962, which resulted in India’s humiliating defeat, was conceded by then Brigadier John Dalvi as the ‘Himalayan blunder’.
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