TURNING POINTS FOR PAK-CHINA WARM RELATIONS IN EARLY 1960S: CHINA’S DETERMINANTS
RRSS 2014 No. 7 - Romanian Review of Social Sciences
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Authors:
• Manzoor, Khan Afridi -
Keywords: China, Pakistan, Tibet, Hostility, Mao Zedong
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Abstract:
Throughout the decade of fifties, there had been ups and downs in Sino-Pakistan relations. Pakistan had been a member of US-led alliances but China deliberately ignored the Pakistan’s West-leaning and some of its provocative statements. China had long been awaited for Pakistan’s gestures to start an era of friendship and mutual trust. Beijing had been pursued a realist policy and threw away all ideological tenets in the critical times. The Chinese security scenario and its surrounding geopolitical and geo-strategic environment were changing so fast to its disadvantage. The events in the end of fifties and start of sixties, such as; the Sino-Indian growing hostility, Sino-Soviet rift, US-USSR help of India during the latter’s war with PRC and the Pakistan’s disillusionment with the West etc, cleared the dust from the roadmap which China had developed so far, for good and correct relationship with Pakistan. This paper aims to analyze the turning points for China’s starting of good relations with Pakistan.