१९६२च्या आधीचा माझा जन्म, माझ्या रस्त्यावरील खेळत्या वयात- ज्यावेळी अजून आमच्या मिरजेच्या घरासमोरील रस्ता डांबरी सुद्धा झाला नव्हता- चीन युद्धाची आठवण कायम असे....आम्ही चिनी लोकांबद्दल ते झुरळे आणि पाली खातात असे कायम म्हणत असू... अर्थात तो आमचा चीनला "हरवण्याचा" लटका प्रयत्न असे...
हे बहुदा १९६५, ६६ सातपर्यंत चालले असावे...
नंतर माझा चीनचा असा संबंध आम्ही अप्पर आसाम मध्ये रहात असताना (१९८९-१९९२) काळात आला... चिनी सेना ज्या छबुआ गावापर्यंत १९६२ साली पोचली होती, त्या गावातून आम्ही अनेकवेळा प्रवास केला...
माझ्या लहानपणी चाऊ एन लाय हे नाव आणि हिंदी-चिनी भाई भाई घोषणा अगदी घरोघरी पोचले होते....
Zhou Enlai: a life, 2024 हे पुस्तक २०२४ साली पाहण्यात आले आणि मी उत्सुकतेने त्यातील भारतावर केलेले भाष्य शोधू लागलो ...
"...Zhou’s trip to India had failed. He had never felt so powerless. He realized that the border disputes were far more complicated than he had perceived. Moreover, his intuition told him that the optimal moment for resolving the border dispute with India was likely gone forever. On several later occasions, he said that Nehru was the “most arrogant” person and the person “most difficult to deal with” he had encountered in his career....
...despite its total victory on the battlefield, China had taken the initiative to stop operations and unilaterally retreat to twenty kilometers behind the Line of Actual Control that stood before Nehru adopted the “forward policy.” This was unprecedented in world history. However, not only Western countries, such as the United States and Britain, but also many Asian and African countries had accused China of resorting to the use of force. The key here was that India’s implementation of the “forward policy” had been carried out in a series of small and unannounced moves. Despite China’s repeated protests, the mainstream international media almost never reported these moves. By comparison, China’s large-scale counteroffensive was so big that it immediately caught the world’s attention. Nehru thus was able to present India as the victim on the international scene. Furthermore, Nehru had long been an influential fighter for anticolonialism, a leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, and an advocate of democracy. Consequently, India easily won the sympathy of countries friendly to both India and China, which was beyond Zhou’s expectations....
...When almost the whole world condemned China after the outbreak of the Sino-Indian War, Moscow’s attitude was exceptional. Keeping Khrushchev’s promise to the Chinese ambassador Liu Xiao, the Soviet government changed its previous stance of neutrality and stood explicitly on China’s side. In a memo to Beijing on October 22, Moscow stated that the Soviet Union endorsed China’s position on the war. More specifically, regarding the “McMahon Line,” Moscow declared that it “supports China’s stand, that is, it is not an established borderline, but a legacy of the tragic historical past.”..."
२०२४ साली जग बदलेले आहे, आज ते भारताच्या मागे ठामपणे उभे राहील का?
चाऊ एन लाय यांचे शेवटचे दिवस माओ यांच्या मुळे अत्यंत वाईट गेले, वाचा Jung Chang & Jon Halliday यांचे पुस्तक "Mao: The Unknown Story" , 2005.
"IN MID-MAY 1972, shortly after Nixon’s visit, it was discovered that Chou En-lai had cancer of the bladder. Under Mao, even a life-threatening illness was not just a medical matter. Mao controlled when and how his Politburo members could receive treatment. The doctors had to report first to Mao. They requested immediate surgery for Chou, stressing that the cancer was at an early stage, and that prompt action could cure it.
On 31 May, Mao decreed: “First: keep it secret, and don’t tell the premier or [his wife]. Second: no examination. Third: no surgery …”
Mao’s pretexts for vetoing treatment were that Chou was “old” (he was seventy-four), had “heart trouble,” and that surgery was “useless.” But Mao himself was seventy-eight, and had worse heart problems, yet surgeons and anesthetists were on stand-by for him...
...The doctors’ entreaty to Mao for proper surgery met with a
brutal reply on 9 May 1974: “Operations are ruled out for now. Absolutely no
room for argument.” Mao intended to let the tumor eat Chou to death unimpeded.
Chou himself then practically begged, via the four top leaders designated by
Mao to supervise his medical “care.” At this point, Mao reluctantly gave his
consent: “Let him see Tun Razak and then we’ll talk about it.” Razak, the
Malaysian prime minister, was due at the end of the month, and Chou went into
the hospital on 1 June—after he had signed the communiqué establishing
diplomatic relations with Malaysia. It was only now that he was allowed his
first proper operation, two years after his cancer had been diagnosed. This
delay made sure that he died nineteen months later, and before Mao...."
