Chapter 17 India is not an enemy of China, but a friend of China[1]

(May 13, 1959) Generally speaking, India is a friendly country to China, and it has been so for more than a thousand years, and we believe it will be so for the next 1,000 to 10,000 years.The enemy of the Chinese people is in the east. U.S. imperialism has many military bases in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines, all of which are aimed at China.China's main attention and struggle policy are in the East, in the Western Pacific region, and in the ferocious aggressive U.S. imperialism, not in India, not in all countries in Southeast Asia and South Asia.Although the Philippines, Thailand, and Pakistan have joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization[2] aimed at dealing with China, we still do not treat these three countries as our main enemy. Our main enemy is US imperialism.India did not participate in the Treaty of Southeast Asia, India is not our country's enemy, but our country's friend.China will not be so stupid, the East has made an enemy to the United States, and the West has made an enemy to India.The suppression of the Tibetan rebellion and the introduction of democratic reforms will not threaten India in the slightest.You see, "Long distance knows the horsepower, long time sees the heart" (Chinese proverb), in the next three, five, ten, twenty, hundred years... What is the relationship between China's Tibet region and India? Friendly or hostile, you will eventually understand.We cannot have two priorities, we cannot treat friends as enemies, this is our national policy.Over the past few years, especially in the past three months, the quarrel between our two countries is just an episode in the process of friendship between the two countries for thousands of years, and it is not worth the people and government authorities of our two countries making a fuss about it.What we said in the previous paragraphs of this article[3], those principles and positions, and those boundaries between right and wrong must be said, and the current differences between our two countries cannot be resolved if we don’t say it.But what those words refer to is only temporary and partial—that is, a temporary difference between our two countries in a place that belongs to Tibet.Indian friends, what do you think? Do you agree with our thinking? As for the point that China can only focus on the east of China, but cannot and does not need to focus on the southwest of my country, our country’s The leader, Chairman Mao Zedong, once talked with Mr. Nehru, the former Indian ambassador to China, many times. Ambassador Nehru can understand and appreciate this point very well.I wonder if the former Indian ambassador conveyed these words to the Indian authorities? Friends, in our opinion, you cannot have two fronts, can you? If so, this is where our two sides meet.Please think about it.Please allow me to take this opportunity to greet Indian leader Mr. Nehru[4].

According to the "Mao Zedong Diplomatic Selected Works" published in 1994 by Central Literature Publishing House and World Knowledge Publishing House. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] This is an additional text written by Mao Zedong when reviewing the Chinese Foreign Ministry's reply to the statement made by Foreign Secretary Dude of the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 26, 1959. [2] On September 8, 1954, under the instigation of the United States, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan signed the "Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty" in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, also known as the "Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty". Manila Treaty.It was a treaty of military alliance, which stated that it would "resist armed attack" by means of "self-help and mutual assistance".The treaty was accompanied by an "understanding" proposed by the United States, which interpreted the "meaning of aggression and armed attack" as "only applicable to the aggression of the Communist Party".The treaty also designated Cambodia, Laos and South Vietnam as its "protected areas" in the form of protocols.The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was established when the treaty entered into force on 19 February 1955.The "Declaration on the Neutrality of Laos" adopted at the Geneva Conference in July 1962 did not recognize its so-called protection for Laos.Since 1967, France has refused to send a formal delegation to the organization's ministerial council.On November 8, 1972, Pakistan announced its withdrawal.In June 1977 the organization announced its dissolution.

[3] The main content of these passages is: Mr. Dodd shifts the responsibility for the recent abnormalities in Sino-Indian relations to China, which is completely unacceptable to the Chinese government; Tibet is an inalienable part of Chinese territory , the Chinese government put down the rebellion there and carried out the democratic reforms that the Tibetan people desire, which is entirely China's internal affairs, and other countries have no right to interfere in any name or in any way; before and after the Tibetan rebellion, there were a lot of slander against China in India No matter what kind of "freedom of speech" or other "freedom" is used to justify the speech and actions of interfering in China's internal affairs, its nature of seriously interfering in China's internal affairs and undermining China-India friendship cannot be changed; The published documents, the accusations against the Chinese government, and the grand welcome of the Dalai Lama have undoubtedly played a role in encouraging the Tibetan rebels objectively, no matter what their subjective intentions are.

[4] Nehru, then Prime Minister of India.