India, Sept. 6 -- Spinmeisters for the Chinese regime talk endlessly about the massive investments that China has made in Nepal. What they forget to mention is that much of this is for the use of the PLA.

On October 1 1949, when Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chairman Mao Zedong announced the birth of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the GDP of the new state was less than half that of India, and remained a laggard under the tumultuous years of the rule of Mao. Where he made up was in almost doubling the physical size of China by adding Xinjiang, Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and Tibet almost unopposed. Instead of reacting through force when Tibet-the source of much of the waters of India-was captured, then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru...