Sino-Indian War

  

Sino-Indian War
Part of Great War II
The border region where the conflict occurred (in red)
Date 17 June 1954 – 5 September 1957 Location Himalayas Result Status quo ante bellum
Belligerents
India	China
Commanders and leaders
	Mao Zedong
Strength
Total:	Total: 479,000 troops 1,000 aircraft

The Sino-Indian War was a conflict between India and the People's Republic of China from 1954 to 1957, occurring simultaneously with Great War II. The conflict lasted for three years and led to tens of thousands of casualties on both sides, but ultimately an agreement was signed that left the border as it was before the fighting started.

Since India's independence from the United Kingdom in 1938, China and India have had an unresolved border disputes in the Aksai Chin region. The border was not demarcated for years as the Kuomintang government of the Republic of China never made an attempt to exert control in the region. That changed after the Chinese Communist Party's victory in the Chinese Civil War, and in 1950 the PRC annexed Tibet.