Pak China relations: A question

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Re: Pak China relations: A question

@Farid

Wrong. China was the best friend to India in early 60’s when it was unknown to Pakistan at that time. In a border tussle, the relations of both countries became bad. It was ZAB in the times of Ayub Khan, then Foreign Minister, visited China. MouseTung and Leoshaouchi (pardon my spellings) gave him head of state reception it was perhaps in 1962, friendship started since then. ZAB was founder of this friendly relation.

Nixon’s China game

American Experience | PBS

Sultan Mohammed Khan, Foreign Secretary, Pakistan, on: Yahya Khan’s visit to Beijing

rediff.com: Kuldip Nayar on the US-China-Pak equation in the Bangladesh war

That Kissinger feigned illness in Pakistan and went to Beijing for two days, July 9 and 10, to arrange a meeting between President Nixon and the Chinese leaders, is known. What is not known is how Yahya Khan helped arrange the meeting between two enemy countries through handwritten letters. Both America and China were so beholden to Pakistan that they promised action if Indian forces ever went to East Pakistan to assist the Bangladeshis in their struggle for liberation. There are some nasty remarks against Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. The Memorandum of Conversation, kept in the National Security Archives, Washington, reveals them.