That the trust lost by India in the Chinese after the 1962 India-China war and the events preceding it was never re-built, is common knowledge. The Pakistanis got very close to China immediately after the India-China War, under a strategy devised by a young and brash Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, even though Pakistan was a member of both CENTO and SEATO, ostensibly to prevent the spread of communism!   read more »