China misconduct sinks to a new low

In recent decades the Chinese Communists have acquired a reputation for building economic and military power but depleted the goodwill that comes from being an ancient civilisation. In June 1967, two Indian diplomats — K. Raghunath, later our foreign secretary, and P. Vijai — were subjected to harsh treatment, just short of physical torture, by rampaging mobs before being sent home as spies, with the foreign office in Peking (now Beijing) washing its hands of the affair, saying it was between the embassy and the civic authorities.

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