What was the impact of the third India-Pakistan war?

1971110/0/2 1, India took advantage of the turmoil in East Pakistan and its alliance with the Soviet Union to contain Pakistan's allies, the United States and China, launched a large-scale surprise attack on Bangladesh, successfully occupied the region and fostered an autonomous government, and eventually became independent.

Impact:

First of all, the war in less than a month divided Pakistan into two parts, accounting for 56% of Pakistan's total population, and East Pakistan, with an area of 16%, became an independent Bangladesh. India's wish to dismember Pakistan has come true. Since then, the power balance of countries in the South Asian subcontinent has changed significantly, and the dismembered Pakistan has further widened the power gap with India. India has become the only regional power in South Asia with obvious economic and military advantages.

Secondly, during the third India-Pakistan war, the United States was worried that the Soviet Union would play a leading role in South Asia, so it adopted a policy of favoring Pakistan in the war. Although the US military did not directly participate in the war, India-US relations fell to the lowest point after the war. As India gradually became the outpost of the Soviet Union's southward strategy and a strategic partner against China, the relationship between India and the Soviet Union continued to heat up. The United States clearly saw that the Soviet Union was using its relations with India to enter the South Asian subcontinent and further enhance its influence and strength. The strategic contraction of the United States in South Asia stimulated the Soviet Union to implement the strategy of going south to the Indian Ocean to a certain extent, which laid the groundwork for the Soviet Union to enter Afghanistan.

Third, the tortuous changes in the relations between Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. More than two years after Bangladesh was founded,1April 1974, the foreign ministers of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh reached an agreement on the repatriation of prisoners of war, and the relations between the three countries tended to be normalized. 1975 10 Bangladesh and Pakistan formally established diplomatic relations. 1975, a military coup took place in Bangladesh. As soon as the new government opposed India's intimate attitude, it vigorously developed relations with Arab countries and began to restore relations with Pakistan. Since then, a series of events have taken place between Bangladesh and India, such as the dispute over the distribution of the Faraka River, India's cessation of military assistance to Bangladesh, border conflicts between the two countries, illegal immigration, etc., and the relationship between Bangladesh and India has been seriously reversed.