Recalibration of India-China ties

Beijing's outreach to New Delhi comes at a time of a great churn in global politics

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On April 1, 1950, India became the first non-socialist bloc country to recognise the new Communist Party-led People's Republic of China. Two civilisational, post-colonial independent powers entered into a structured relationship for the first time. The handshake across the Himalayas ushered in a decade of bonhomie before the 1962 war along the disputed and unmarked mountainous border set back ties for years.