Which one of the following is correct about Sino-Indian relations since 1962?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Between 1957 and 1959, China occupied the Aksai-chin area.
Note: The given answer is as per the official NTA Answer Key. However, there seems to be an ambiguity in the question. It asks about Sino-Indian relations since 1962, but Option (4) describes what China did between 1957 and 1959, before the 1962 war. Going strictly by the question, none of the options fits; Option (4) is marked because it is the only true statement among the four, as explained below.
Option (1) In 1974 full diplomatic relations were restored between the two countries. — False. Full diplomatic relations were restored in 1976.
Option (2) Atal Behari Vajpayee was the first top level leader to visit China in 1989 — False. Vajpayee, then External Affairs Minister, visited China in 1979.
Option (3) Rajiv Gandhi became the first PM after Lal Bahadur Shastri to visit China. — False. He was the first Prime Minister after Nehru to visit China.
Option (4) Between 1957 and 1959, China occupied the Aksai-chin area. — True. Between 1957 and 1959 the Chinese occupied the Aksai-chin area and built a strategic road there. It is a true fact, but it belongs to the years before the 1962 conflict, not to the relations since 1962.
NCERT (2025-26): “The Chinese invasion, 1962 … A little earlier, a boundary dispute had surfaced between India and China. India claimed that the boundary was a matter settled in colonial time, but China said that any colonial decision did not apply. The main dispute was about the western and the eastern end of the long border. China claimed two areas within the Indian territory: Aksai-chin area in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir and much of the state of Arunachal Pradesh in what was then called NEFA (North Eastern Frontier Agency). Between 1957 and 1959, the Chinese occupied the Aksai-chin area and built a strategic road there. Despite a very long correspondence and discussion among top leaders, these differences could not be resolved. Several small border skirmishes between the armies of the two countries took place.…”
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