Sarah Paine

We don't want a bunch of Westerners running around.

We share this with India.

And so I think if you get Sheikha Sheikh winning the Chinese Civil War and things, you might have had them team up and had a much more productive relationship.

Well, next time you're in New Delhi, go check out the museum.

But when I was there, it was like 20 years ago.

But I remember being impressed.

Wow.

And then when Gandhi was assassinated, this is Mahatma, not Indira, who was also assassinated.

No relation.

Yeah.

that the Chinese, the nationalists, sense all sorts of condolences and different things.

So, yeah, there could have been a different outcome.

I think the 1962 war made Nehru realize that non-alignment was a non-starter.

And that's...

for the reasons you're talking about, is like, okay, we just got eaten alive by the Chinese.

Okay, we need Big Friend, and we probably need some big missiles eventually.

And it's not immediately.

The Indians don't come around to it that we absolutely need nuclear weapons until the Bangladesh War when China's become more of a threat.

Nehru's dead in like 64, so it's his daughter.

Well, the official alliance, I'm just defining what an alliance is.