India, Burma, and the Politics of Recognizing the New China.

U Maung explained to Nehru that the Burmese government had to recognize the PRC owing to a disturbing situation on Burma's northeast border with China. On December 18, 1949, Jawaharlal Nehru, the prime minister of India, received a telegram from Clement Attlee, the British prime minister, inquiring as to whether the Indian government would take parallel action with Britain to recognize the People's Republic of China (PRC) on January 2, 1950.[1] Nehru then told Krishna Menon, the Indian high commissioner to the United Kingdom, that India would recognize the PRC on December 30, 1949. Realizing that India had not recognized the PRC and that their surprising announcement would very possibly enrage Nehru, who had long called for mutual consultation before taking any action with the recognition, the Burmese Foreign Minister U Maung paid a visit to New Delhi on December 17. [Extracted from the article]