JFK's Forgotten Crisis in the East

Buried beneath the unwinding Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was the palimpsest of a second crisis that could equally have tipped the world into nuclear war. This was the prospect opened up by India's China War when Beijing and Mao decided that the only way to deter what they saw as Indian adventurism, both in providing arms and equipment to the Tibetan insurgents, and its tactics of "forward deployment" along the disputed Sino-Indian border, was by force of arms.