At a time when the rest of the world was exhausted from the Second World War and attention was focused on the Cold War, Mao pulled off one of the greatest real estate coups of all time. It was a masterstroke in geopolitical manoeuvring. That India took the brunt of it was partly due to her own inability to think long term. In the end, even though the cast of villains can be long, we only had ourselves to blame. Hopefully, we shall not make the same mistake twice.
