INDIA, CHINA AND AN ANGLO-US COMPETITION

GOKHALE’S THESIS IS THAT AN ANGLO-US COMPETITION OVER CHINA AND THE FAR EAST IMPACTED INDIA

- T.C.A. Raghavan

CROSSWINDS
Nehru, Zhou and the Anglo-American Competition over China
By Vijay Gokhale VINTAGE BOOKS ₹699; 256 pages

The author, a former foreign secretary, has post-retirement directed his accumulated experience and knowledge of China into three wellreceived books on China's political evolution and on the China-India interface.

This is his fourth and is somewhat different being an immersion into the archives of four inter-governmental relationships in the 1950s: between China, the US, Britain and India. The context is the post-World War II world with an ascendant US and Britain in decline but seeking to retain influence in China and Southeast Asia.