India and China celebrated the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries on April 1, 1950, with a warmth that bodes well for relations between the two Asian superpowers.

The occasion was marked by the exchange of messages between President Draupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Qiang in Beijing. We would do well to recall at this point the spirit in which Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, advocated strong ties between the two nations, both of which had at that time fully overthrown the yoke of foreign domination.

Nehru’s advocacy of strong ties with the new people’s........

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