About the Author\nBertil Lintner, Journalist, author, and strategic consultant, Svenska Dagbladet and Janes Information Group\nBertil Lintner was a senior writer for the Far Eastern Economic Review for more than twenty years, covering Burma (now Myanmar) and related issues. He now writes for the Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet and Janes Information Group in the UK. He is a recognized expert on Burmese issues as well as ethnic minorities, insurgencies, and narcotics in Southeast and South Asia.\nThe first book to put the Sino-Indian border dispute and the 1962 war into its rightful historical and geopolitical context, China's India War examines how the 1962 war was about much more than the border. China was going through immense internal turmoil following the disastrous 'Great Leap Forward' and Mao Zedong, the architect of the movement, was looking to reassert his power over the Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army. Finding an outside enemy against which everyone could unite was his best option. Coincidentally, India was emerging as the leader of the newly independent countries in Asia and Africa and the stakes were high for a war with India: winning the war could mean China would 'dethrone' India and take over. A border dispute with India and India's decision to grant asylum to the Dalal Lama after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet in 1959 gave China legitimate reasons to go to war. This book unveils how China has started planning the war as 
early as in 1959, much before Jawaharlal Nehru launched the 'forward policy' in the border areas. And how the war accomplished much for China: India lost, China became the main voice of revolutionary movements in the Third World, and Mao Zedong was back in power.

China's India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World (Oxford India Paperbacks)

Lintner, Bertil

Legal Theory & Systems

Oxford Univ. Pr.

The first book to put the Sino-Indian border dispute and the 1962 war into its rightful historical and geopolitical context, China's India War examines how the 1962 war was about much more than the border. China was going through immense internal turmoil following the disastrous 'Great Leap Forward' and Mao Zedong, the architect of the movement, was looking to reassert his power over the Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army. Finding an outside enemy against which everyone could unite was his best option. Coincidentally, India was emerging as the leader of the newly independent countries in Asia and Africa and the stakes were high for a war with India: winning the war could mean China would 'dethrone' India and take over. A border dispute with India and India's decision to grant asylum to the Dalal Lama after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet in 1959 gave China legitimate reasons to go to war. This book unveils how China has started planning the war as early as in 1959, much before Jawaharlal Nehru launched the 'forward policy' in the border areas. And how the war accomplished much for China: India lost, China became the main voice of revolutionary movements in the Third World, and Mao Zedong was back in power.

China's India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World

History

Asia

Oxford University Press

Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier

Yale University Press

Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the British imperial government, and competition for strategic access to the Indian Ocean have given rise to tense gamesmanship, political intrigue, and rivalry between the two Asian giants. Former Far Eastern Economic Review correspondent Bertil Lintner has drawn from his extensive personal interviews with insurgency leaders and civilians in remote tribal areas in northeastern India, newly declassified intelligence reports, and his many years of firsthand experience in Asia to chronicle this ongoing struggle. His history of the “Great Game East” is the first significant account of a regional conflict which has led to open warfare on several occasions, most notably the Sino-India border war of 1962, and will have a major impact on global affairs in the decades ahead.

Burma In Revolt: Opium And Insurgency Since 1948

Reference

Routledge

Aung San Suu Kyi And Burma

Monash Asia Inst

Lintner, a freelance writer based in Thailand and the author of three previous books on Burma, draws on his extensive travels and personal meetings with rebel commanders, ethnic leaders, and other key figures to explore the interrelationship of drugs, insurgency, counterinsurgency, and politics in a poor and bitterly divided nation now in its 47th year of internal warfare. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Westview Press

The product of thirteen years of research, interviews, and experience, this is the most authoritative book ever written on the interrelationship of drugs, insurgency, counterinsurgency, and politics in Burma. Widely respected as one of the world's leading experts on Burma, Bertil Lintner has drawn on his extensive travels and personal meetings with rebel commanders, ethnic leaders, and other key figures to present a compelling and comprehensive picture of politics and society in a poor and bitterly divided country.Fighting between the central government and myriad political and ethnic insurgencies entered its forty-seventh year in 1994, with no solution in sight. While other countries in the region are developing into freer, more open societies, once-democratic Burma has been ruled by a medieval military dictatorship since 1962. The complex nexus between the drug problem, military rule, and Burma's civil war has rarely been considered when international narcotics agencies have evaluated the drug problem in the Golden Triangle. Consequently, millions of dollars have been wasted in a misguided effort to treat the problem as a localized vice, rather than addressing the underlying historical, social, and economic factors behind the drug explosion. Meanwhile, opium production is increasing steadily, year by year.This book aims to explore the inextricable links among Burma's booming drug production, insurgency, and counterinsurgency and to explain why the country has been unable to shake off over thirty years of military rule to build a modern democratic society. Burma's ethnic strife, the author argues, is not a peripheral problem confined to the country's border areas. Without a lasting solution to ethnic divisions and the civil war they have fueled, Burma will remain a source of political despair—and the opium it grows will continue to flood the markets of the world.

Burma In Revolt: How Burma Became The World's Biggest Heroin Producer

A well-documented and extremely engaging account of the Burmese Communist Party that details the development of the Party and the events and forces that led to the 1989 Mutiny and subsequent fall of the CPB. This study explores the ethnic tensions that influenced the attitudes of the rank-and-file members, the support and influence of the Chinese Communist Party, the Party's involvement in the drug trade, and the complex, antagonistic relationship between the CPB and the military regime of Burma.

The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) (Southeast Asia Program)

Southeast Asia Program Publications

Outrage: Burmas Struggle for Democracy

Weatherhill

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China's India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World (Oxford India Paperbacks)

China's India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World

Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier

Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier

Burma In Revolt: Opium And Insurgency Since 1948

Aung San Suu Kyi And Burma

Burma In Revolt: Opium And Insurgency Since 1948

Burma In Revolt: How Burma Became The World's Biggest Heroin Producer

The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) (Southeast Asia Program)

Outrage: Burmas Struggle for Democracy