The lasting lesson of 1962

[Agni5000]

you talk big man,India's gap with China is getting big every single day.

What gap you are talking ? BTW we are always taller than chinese. are you talking about that gap?

 

[conworldus]

What gap you are talking ? BTW we are always taller than chinese. are you talking about that gap?

No, Indians are on average shorter than Chinese...

Human height - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chinese male: 1.66m rural, 1.70m urban
Indian male: 1.61 m rural, 1.64m (average)

 

[OrionHunter]

China launched an offensive in October 1962 that lasted only a few days but inflicted a decisive defeat on India. With its objectives met, the Chinese army returned to its starting point without conquering any new territories.

This part is utter bullsh!t of the highest order. Firstly there is a mistaken notion that the Chinese withdrew because they only wanted to teach India 'a lesson'! If people had read Neville Maxwell's excerpts taken from the Henderson Brooks report (Still inexplicably classified by the Indian government), the reason why the Chinese withdrew was because of acute logistics problems. The Chinese troops were down to 'eating grass and weeds and dying from consuming contaminated water'.

Their lines of communications were so stretched, that it had become impossible to have maintained them any longer. And that's the reason why they had to declare a unilateral ceasefire and withdraw from Arunachal Pradesh (NEFA) and NOT because they had only wanted to teach India a lesson and withdraw once this mission had been completed!! Which Army/country would be so stupid to give up territory they had captured after losing hundreds of men in battle? Just to teach an adversary a 'lesson'?

And then the report mentions that they withdrew 'WITHOUT CONQUERING ANY NEW TERRITORIES'! How could they? Without adequate logistic support they would have been decimated. In other words this was impracticable, nay, impossible! Any further attempt to do so would have forced the Indian government to escalate the conflict by involving the Indian Air Force which would have been a disaster for the Chinese troops.





So that mistaken notion that the Chinese withdrew after 'teaching India a lesson' is nonsensical in the extreme and needs to be put to rest once and for all.

 

[xizhimen]

What gap you are talking ? BTW we are always taller than chinese. are you talking about that gap?

on average ,you are much shorter than us and in sports,rarely see any Indian athletes in top international sports arena

 

[Agni5000]

No, Indians are on average shorter than Chinese...

Human height - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chinese male: 1.66m rural, 1.70m urban
Indian male: 1.61 m rural, 1.64m (average)

I have not seen a single chini more than 5'

 

[Al Bhatti]

I have not seen a single chini more than 5'

Yao Ming (born September 12, 1980) is a retired Chinese professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As of the 2010–11 NBA season, he was the tallest player in the NBA, at 2.29 m (7 ft 6 in).

Yao Ming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[conworldus]

I have not seen a single chini more than 5'

That only means you are blind.

 

[Holmes]

on average ,you are much shorter than us and in sports,rarely see any Indian athletes in top international sports arena

China rarely seen in Arts arena? Movie Industry? Heard of Bollywood? Heard of Cricket?

 

[xizhimen]

on average both Chinese men and women are much taller than Indians,especially in North China.

 

[xizhimen]

China rarely seen in Arts arena? Movie Industry? Heard of Bollywood? Heard of Cricket?

is Cricket an Olympic sport?how many countries play that?We know Hollywood,but Bollywood?what a funny name.China as a posing biggest movie market in the world dosent have any Indian moives shown in China.But China Kungfu moives are popular around the world.

 

[Agni5000]

That only means you are blind.

It is fact.

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Yao Ming (born September 12, 1980) is a retired Chinese professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). As of the 2010–11 NBA season, he was the tallest player in the NBA, at 2.29 m (7 ft 6 in).

Yao Ming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

may be one of case of out 1bn people. In general they are in between 4-5 ft.

 

[xizhimen]

China rarely seen in Arts arena?

really,the fact is that now we dominates the world's arts market.

China Dominates World Art Market
September 07, 2011

At Sotheby’s modern art sale last spring, a Chinese buyer claimed the priciest piece, paying $21.3m for Picasso’s “Femme Lisant (Deux Personnages).” Another buyer set a new French record for Chinese art when he bid $31m in March for a scroll at Labarbe auction house in Toulouse. Get used to it: Chinese dominance at auctions is only likely to become more pronounced as the country with the world’s largest number of billionaires assumes a primary place in the international art auction market.

Both Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and other auction houses have been focusing on these new buyers, adding Chinese representatives in London and New York, as well as developing beachheads in China. What Chinese buyers lack in sophistication and experience, they more than make up for in resources. The number of Chinese billionaires is expected to rise 20% each year through 2014. “Chinese buyers,” said Hong Kong collector Lawrence Chu, “are now recognized as the most important area of business development.”

Read more at The New York Times.

Chinese Artists Dominate List Of 10 Most Expensive Paintings Sold Last Year
Matthew Kassel | Jan. 16, 2012, 1:45 PM | 15,586 | 7


picasso la lectureDespite an ailing world economy, the global art market in 2011 experienced its best year ever recorded — with a 15% increase in revenue — according to a report by the French research company Artprice.

The year's highest bid for an artwork was lower than the previous year's $95 million bid for a Picasso (the world record for a work of art), but the sum is nevertheless impressive.

Two post-war artists — the Pop icons Roy Lichtensein and Andy Warhol — were among the top ten this year, in a list filled with Modern artists. And the top two, both by Chinese artists and sold in China, suggest that the country is becoming the new bellwether of the global art market.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/10-most-expensive-paintings-sold-last-year-2012-1#ixzz1k4eof1FM

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[newdelhinsa]

They must have used made in China measuring tape for Indians.

 

[xizhimen]

They must have used made in China measuring tape for Indians.

since when Wikipedia becomes a Chinese source?ha

 

[xizhimen]

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