Chapter 613: The Peace of Calcutta (I)
However, more importantly, under the grim situation, the US and British governments finally made major concessions in the peace talks, and every time they made a concession, the Chinese army would take a few steps back and spit out more or less territory, which fully demonstrated the Chinese government's sincerity for peace, and the Sino-British peace talks that had dragged on for a long time also reached an agreement in Calcutta at a very fast speed, which was later called the "Sino-British Calcutta Peace Treaty", referred to as the "Calcutta Peace Treaty" for short.
In the peace treaty, the British government recognized that the land north of the Himalayas and east of the Manipur Mountains was China's sacred and inalienable territory, and China thus obtained more than 100,000 square kilometers of land between the northwestern section of the Himalayas and China's original border, and the Himalayas as a barrier between China and India, greatly consolidating its strategic security.
Although Hu Weidong is somewhat reluctant personally, there is no perfect result on Shijie, and after giving up southern Tibet, China will not have to worry about building a super hydropower station in the Yarlung Zangbo River Grand Canyon in the future, anyway, even if something happens, it is not us who are unlucky
It is also worth mentioning that after the signing of the peace treaty, the local people decided to stay according to their own wishes, and those who were willing to return to China would return to China with the PLA, and the Chinese government promised to provide them with children's education, work, housing and various welfare guarantees that were not lower than the average level in China. And those who don't want to stay stay, since they have chosen it themselves. In the future, they will have little to do with China
The occupation of the Indochina Peninsula will also be greatly conducive to China's digestion and absorption of this large granary after the United States and Britain recognize it, and the densely forested Manipur Mountains are also enough to become a natural barrier, ensuring the security of the Indochina Peninsula to a large extent.
Originally, the British government also hoped to at least keep the strategic location of Singapore, but the repeated defeats in the European battlefield made the British government lose the confidence to continue to hold on, and the US government was also worried that the British government would lose its homeland due to small losses, and exerted pressure on it at both ends in three days, and finally the British side could continue to provide supplies for the US and British navies after the Chinese government agreed to the two ports of Singapore and Hong Kong (unless specially invited, they were only allowed to stay in the port for a maximum of 3 days, let alone go ashore). After that. Recognized China's sovereignty over Singapore
Furthermore. The United States and Britain have also reluctantly recognized Nepal and Bhutan, two small red countries that China has fostered, while Sikkim has been designated as a four-nation demilitarized zone and free trade area, which on the one hand serves as a buffer zone. On the other hand, it is also convenient for the development of trade between China and Britain (India). The reason why the United States and Britain made concessions on this condition. On the one hand, it is eager to get out and put more liliang into the European competition. On the other hand, the British government has now realized that fighting in the Himalayas is not an ordinary difficulty, even if the British can spare their hands in the future. It will not be easy to conquer Nepal and Bhutan again, and with China's backing of the two countries, it will become a big quagmire like Afghanistan today
Although it was heartbroken by the loss of so many colonies, after the peace treaty was reached, the Chinese government within a month captured more than 200,000 people (some died during the captivity for various reasons, and unless the British side had evidence to prove that they were still alive, they were basically detained, otherwise the number would be much more). The release of British and French officers and a much larger number of colonial soldiers, not to mention the captured Western (mainly British) civilians, benefited the British, who had suffered a great loss of manpower over the years.
Whether it is to stay in India to deal with the Indian communist forces, or to bring them back to participate in the European war, it can greatly alleviate the British government's urgent need for heavy losses and urgent need for new blood replenishment; The fact that most of the French troops, without a choice, agreed to join the "Free French" to fight for the Allies, which was also of great help to the British. Although the colonial soldiers were useless, they could still be armed against the equally poor Indian communist forces, at least they could be used as artillery fire to reduce the casualties of the British army themselves; And even those Western civilians who were unfortunately affected by the war before can be released to a greater or lesser extent to replenish the human resources that the allies have lost so much
The US Government is still a little grateful to the Chinese Government for taking care of its own face, and although national interests determine that it is impossible for it to change its stance hostile to New China, relations between the two countries have improved somewhat to some extent, and this is still beneficial to China's expansion of Sino-US trade and people-to-people exchanges
After the conclusion of the peace treaty, all Chinese troops must withdraw from India within a month, but there is nothing to regret about this, since the total number of Chinese officers and soldiers who have fallen ill in India due to the unsanitary environment and the climate very different from that in India has reached tens of thousands, and the number of sick people is still increasing, and everyone has been looking forward to leaving this ghost place for a long time. And Hu Weidong is not a good man and a woman, before leading the army to leave India, almost all the local materials useful for domestic construction were swept away, so that after the Chinese troops withdrew, the British and Indian troops found that even the railroad tracks were stripped away, and those Chinese walked all the way, picked up a section and sent to the front train back to the rear, and then continued to strip the next section of the railway line as well
Relatively speaking, almost all the railroad tracks of low value have been swept away, not to mention those industrial equipment, and some of the military industrial enterprises that Britain has built in order to allow the British and Indian troops to supply nearby (including some that have not yet been built) will not be let go by Hu Weidong. Although this amount of supplies was a great test for the transportation of the Burma-India road, because the sweep began early, and the industrial equipment began to be moved long before the Chinese army Zuihou counterattacked (i.e., the one that took Mumbai), most of it was eventually sent to Burma
Note 1: Although the occupation of Myanmar is already connected to southern Tibet on the map, it is still practically no different from an "enclave" due to the mountains and rivers, and its value is much worse than that of the strategically important northwestern Himalayas. In other words, the territorial dispute between China and India is not for economic interests, but mainly for geopolitical security considerations, and in this regard, since we already control the northern foothills of the Himalayas in the eastern sector, the disputed land in the eastern sector is far less strategic than the western sector (to be continued......