Riedel, Bruce. JFK’s Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, The CIA, and The Sino – Indian War (Book Review)

Uttar Pradesh: Harper Collins, 2016, pp. 233.

Abstract

The study of communist expansionism against the policy of containment provides various patterns of US foreign policy under different presidents. Various authors having diverse and contrasting views try to define their positions on four decades long Washington – Moscow competition for global leadership. The story of American struggle against communist forces of Soviet Union also engaged 35th President of United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy who faced multiple challenges in this contest. Washington’s decision-making potential was stretched from Cuba to Tibet. The presence of communist Soviet Union in Cuba paralleled communist China in Tibet, intensely raised a complicated situation for President Kennedy. Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow and director of the Brooking Intelligence Project, discusses the story of Kennedy administration trapped between the Caribbean and South Asian politics.