Volume 16, Number 7 · April 22, 1971
How Aggressive is China?
By John K. Fairbank
India's China War
by Neville Maxwell
Pantheon, 475 pp., $10.00
Peking's 'expansionism' has been the major justification for the United States's containment policy. The sudden Chinese attack on Indian border forces in October, 1962, was denounced by India as unprovoked aggression, and it still contributes to the American image of a China that is, as Mr. Nixon sees it, 'expansionist.' Now this pillar of the containment doctrine is carefully examined by Neville Maxwell, who breaks it up and throws it to the winds. His book is an object lesson in international astigmatism, primarily that of the Indians, but also ours. His story tells us something about the Chinese style in boundary disputes, if not in foreign relations generally, and raises questions to ponder as we look at the Sino-American future and the question of Taiwan in particular.
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