Vijay Anand Tripathi

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It is interesting to see how the Chinese read Bijji Kaul. General Yang Chengiou, the Deputy Chief of General Staff, had led a PLA team to India in 1957. Apart from visiting ordnance factories and a host of other establishments, 4 Infantry Division (of which Kaul was then the GOC) had put on a demonstration on Indian Army infantry tactics somewhere near Ambala. In a subsequent meeting in Peking, Chairman Mao had asked Yang Chengiou to brief the assembled Chinese leadership on his perception of Kaul.
1962: The War That Wasn't
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