ABSTRACT
The Sino-Indian border dispute was the PRC’s second modern imperialist war. From the late 1950s, soon after the Korean War and following closely upon the military reforms of the mid-1950s, to the late 1970s, the PLA fought a series of territorial disputes with many of China’s major neighbors-India, the USSR, and Vietnam. The PRC’s goal was to reassert China’s traditional borders and to dissuade the creation of anti-Chinese political alliances among its neighbors. China achieved a notable victory in its Sino-Indian conflict, and especially during the 1962 border war.
