(as) continuous defensive lines do not exist (there is) almost an unlimited scope for infiltration. - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

Chinese irredentism and Communist imperialism are different from the expansionism or imperialism of the Western powers. The former has a cloak of ideology which makes it ten times more dangerous. In the guise of ideological expansion lie concealed racial, national and historical claims. The danger from the north and north-east becomes both communist and imperialist.

[ despite that we have an ambassador] who is eminently suitable for putting across the friendly point of view... .. (now comes) the wild insinuation that our attitude is determined by foreign influences... It looks as though it is not a friend speaking in that language but a potential enemy.

‘a Communist China which has definite ambitions and aims and which does not, in any way, seem friendly disposed towards us’.