The 1962 Sino-Indian border conflict was an important event during the Cold War that had enormous ramifications on the trajectories of the Sino-Indian relations, Sino-Soviet relations, Sino-American relations and on the process of the Cold War. The conflict led America to reevaluate China’s strategic intentions and capabilities, which, coupled with China’s strong reactions during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, had caused America’s threat perception of China to rise dramatically. The Kennedy administration’s initial efforts to try to re-adjust its policy vis-à-vis China were shifted to the hardening of the containment strategy against China. As a result, the Kennedy administration also began to make helping India counter-balance China an important element of its hardening of the containment against China. The 1962 Sino-Indian border conflict also became a catalyst for the Sino-Soviet split.