Communism was regarded as the instrument for Asian Neo-colonialism after WW2 by the British. Inspired by the Russian Revolution, the Communist party was founded in both China & India. The CCP was formed in 1921 on the principles of Marxism-Leninism. The Communist Party in India was officially formed on 26 December 1925 after the RSS was founded on 27 September 1925.
Before WW2, the communist party was more strong in India than in China. The treacherous Mao saw opportunity in the Japanese aggression to capture power through civil war while nationalist Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-Shek were fighting for the country.
Mao had even thanked Japan https://www.quora.com/Did-Mao-thank-Japan-for-invading-China
The communists in India acted as traitorously as their global comrades. The master plan for India, was a take over through proxy communists like Nehru & Menon. The Dewan of Junagadh Shah Nawaz Bhutto told VP Menon, that it was only a matter of time before communists took over Nehru-Congress. VP Menon was trying to convince Bhutto the absurdity of joining Pakistan which had no connection with Junagadh by land. But Bhutto said it was in the best interest of Junagadh to stay away from such trouble (omen of Communist take over).
CCP princelings
They are the sons, daughters and in-laws of former high ranking officers and officials of Communist party, with having stellar family links.
The children of veteran communists who held high-ranking offices in China before 1966, the first year of the Cultural Revolution, are commonly called princelings. They are the ruling politicians, military generals and entrepreneurs in China today. The princelings by birth tend to have a stronger sense of entitlement as successors to the first generation of revolutionaries than princelings by marriage.
Xi Jinping’s father, Xi Zhongxun, was a veteran communist who served as secretary general and vice premier of the State Council in the 1950s and the 1960s and as a Politburo member in the 1980s.
Yet the driving force behind all China’s decisions, the Chinese Communist Party(CCP), remains notoriously opaque. Performance alone is not enough. There need to be signs of deeper allegiance to the Party. The party relies on three pillars: (1) control of personnel, (2) propaganda, and (3) the People’s Liberation Army.
India's ordnance factories
India had 18 ordnance factories in 1947. Nehru, scared of a military coup, opined that India did not need an army — the police were sufficient. The armed forces were downgraded.
What Nehru and Krishna Menon did was ask the Ordinance Factories to make Coffee Percolators for sale to the public through the Indian Coffee Houses (a co-operative venture of the employees of the Indian Coffee Board) instead of ordinance material and the Army to build public toilets rather than do what the Army is supposed to do in peace time which is prepare for war, (training, exercises etc).
The result was that the Indian Army, globally acknowledged as about the best in World Wars I and II, was pitched into the 1962 Sino-Indian war, woefully under-armed, ill-equipped, insufficiently clad and not to mention, numerically under-strength. The war shattered the elevated image of Nehru, who till then was strutting around the globe posing as a Great Third World Leader. It is on record that he never went outside India after the war.
