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Gromyko had a long talk with the Indian ambassador to the Soviet Union, and reminded India earnestly that the United States is now the number one capitalist country and the leader of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. , if you get too close to the United States, you will suffer in the future.
India’s response to the earnest reminder from the Soviet Foreign Minister was: No, we are only developing normal state-to-state relations with the United States. India will not fall to the United States. We still adhere to the principle of the Non-Aligned Movement and will never form an alliance with the United States. into a military alliance.
This is indeed true. Nehru and Herter are brothers and sisters, and they have received American military aid and purchased a lot from the United States. However, Nehru did veto the signing of any mutual defense agreement with the United States.
Gromyko said nothing.This attitude of India just stepped on the bottom line of Gromyko and Khrushchev: you, India, at the very least, cannot form an alliance with the United States.As long as India does not form an alliance with the United States, everything else has to be discussed.
Now India is very frank, I promise not to form an alliance with the United States.What else can the USSR say?
Then Gromyko talked about the issue of Sino-Indian relations. The Indian ambassador to the Soviet Union was very firm and tight-lipped, except for New Delhi to explain his position and official language, and did not say a word.
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"The attitude of the Soviet Union is a kind of containment to India. The Soviet Union maintains a close relationship with India, and its large-scale industrial assistance to India has not changed, but it strongly opposes India's use of force. What kind of consequences. But now that the Americans have come over, this will greatly enhance India's own confidence."
For the China-India Border Intelligence Conference jointly held by the Intelligence Department of the General Staff and the Ministry of National Defense, Tang Hua has been collecting various intelligence and information since August, and prepared a thick pile of materials.
This is not something that can be predicted by the traveler by reversing the historical trend.Because the progress of the counter-insurgency battle has exceeded expectations, China and India have contacted and clashed in advance, and the entire history has become a bit chaotic.
There are very few people engaged in South Asian studies in China. There are two professors at Peking University, one studies South Asian literature and the other studies Buddhism and Hindu history.In the end, Tang Hua found out that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Intelligence Department of the General Staff were reliable.
"From March to April this year, the reports of Indian domestic media showed that India has controlled and guided public opinion to a certain extent, and hoped that the public would not focus too much on the conflict in southern Tibet. It was the result of the government’s subsequent management and control. But starting in May, the guidance and control of Indian public opinion weakened, and finally disappeared completely.”
"No longer controlling and guiding public opinion, this is a signal of a change in the attitude of the Nehru government."
"From May to August, Indian public opinion began to talk about the conflict between southern Tibet and China relatively freely. After August 5, another change occurred, and Indian public opinion was guided by another mysterious force, and it began to be unusually intensive. Focus on southern Tibet."
Tang Hua opened the report and took out a newspaper dated August 8, "The Times of India found a soldier who was said to have served in Derangzong in February. He reported that he was attacked by the Chinese army at the end of February. After the troops broke up and had nowhere to stay, they begged along the way back to Delhi, where they were interviewed by a reporter from the Times of India."
"This is not a simple news mining report," Tang Hua said, "because this story is made up."
"The memories of the battle in Derangzong have nothing to do with our battle report records; the way of leaving Derangzong is false, he was sent back by us, and the travel expenses were returned; begging along the way may be true .His false description of the battle was, obviously, deliberately designed to create hatred against China."
"Then there are the meeting minutes of the two houses of the Indian Parliament. After sorting out the speeches and hearings involving China, especially the southern Tibet region, it will be found that the Indian Parliament has had many debates on the border issue since March. Among them, Neh After Rue returned from the Soviet Union, the Indian Parliament passed a resolution not to recognize the outcome of the Moscow talks and asked Nehru to talk to us again."
"The resolution in early July was not implemented by Nehru. However, on September 7, Nehru, Defense Minister Menon and some members of the Federal House of Parliament held a secret cabinet meeting. The topic of discussion is unknown, but We can find clues from the list of MPs who attended the cabinet meeting."
"The ones who participated in the cabinet meeting were the original peace faction among the Indian parliamentarians."
"Nehru is convincing these peacemakers to form a unified opinion and start a war with us." Li Kernong put down his pen and said blankly.
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"Is Nehru a militant or a pacifist?" Chen Geng, who hadn't shown up for a long time, asked a question.
Tang Hua: "Nehru is a strong Indian nationalist. He was Mahatma Gandhi's most trusted assistant and played a key role in the Indian independence movement. Therefore, after Gandhi's assassination, it can be relatively small. Nehru had no military command experience and did not understand soldiers, but if a war was necessary to maintain the prestige of the Indian government and the support of the Indian people, he would launch a war without hesitation. "
Li Kenong: "He must win a war in order to gain prestige and support. If he loses, he might as well not fight. Could it be that Nehru doesn't understand this?"
Su Yu: "Nehru never commanded a battle, he was only in charge of making a decision to 'fight' or 'not to fight', India's defense minister is a civilian official, so the highest actual command of the Indian army is their general staff. "
"The current chairman of the Indian Chiefs of Staff is Air Marshal Sabroto Mukherjee of India," Tang Hua said. "He served as the commander of the Indian Air Force in 54 and as the chairman of the Chiefs of Staff in 55. In the past four years, he has focused on all his work. Almost all of them are on the construction of the Indian Air Force, and the purchase of equipment for the Navy and Army is mostly promoted by the Minister of Defense and Nehru, and Mukherjee himself is not enthusiastic about it at all.”
An air force commander who was originally a flight training director of the air force has become the highest officer of the Indian army, which is beyond Su Yu's understanding...
"If India wants to tear up the China-India-Moscow Joint Announcement, then December to January is the best time." Lin Sanhu skipped over India's senior leaders and generals, and said directly about the operation:
"During this period, the climate in Tibet was the worst, and our logistics supply was the most difficult. In contrast, although India's logistics transportation line also has the problem of rugged and dangerous mountain roads, in southern Tibet on the eastern front, their altitude is slightly lower. The temperatures are not so cold, and on the western and central fronts, their logistics lines are very close to their populated areas of the plains."
Li Kernong: "In the July 7.10 joint announcement between Nehru and the Prime Minister, the two sides will stop conflicts and targeted military deployments within half a year starting from July 7.15, that is, it will expire on January 1."
Lin Sanhu: "No, they will definitely not wait until January 1th to start the war, they will advance. If the war starts on January 16th, the weather will get warmer."
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For night meetings, the adjournment is at 11:[-] pm.
While debating the time when India declared war, no, whether China printed in 1959 or 1960, Tang Hua returned home and opened the door.
"Is the situation outside getting tense again?" Zhou Xuan asked softly.
"No, it's very safe," Tang Hua said, "It's just, um, technical adjustments, don't be afraid."
"The meeting lasted until midnight. It's a bit like the years of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea. It won't be like this kind of meeting will be held every now and then."
Tang Hua didn't tell Zhou Xuan the specific content of the meeting, but once he mentioned the location of the meeting, and it lasted until midnight, Zhou Xuan could guess where it was going.
"There will be no more wars like the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea," Tang Hua pushed away from Tang Hancheng's bedroom and glanced at it, "I will stay up late for meetings... There won't be many, at most three times."
On the second day off, Zhou Xuan was dumbfounded watching Tang Hua use his guitar as a lute player, plucking strings and playing a strange piece of music.
"What kind of song is this? It's like an Indian song. It's noisy."
Tang Hua: "Well... I have listened to a few Indian songs recently, and imitated their style and made up one."
After Tang Hua played it once, the noisy but highly brainwashing Divine Comedy made the whole family a little confused.
"The name of this song should be 'Rolling and Turning', ah no, it's called 'I have only one string left on my piano'." Zhou Xuan said.
"Actually, the name I want to name it is "I'm Playing with Mud in the Northeast", ah, no, "What a Cold Winter", no, no, "I Don't Have a Home in Dalian"..."
There are so many spoof versions that Tang Hua almost can't remember the original name of the song, it seems to be called Tunak Tunak Tun?Forget it, when the time comes, please ask the professor of Indian literature at Peking University to refill the lyrics.The kind that can clear the morale of the opposing army when the two armies confront each other.
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Dawang.
In the narrow sense, Dawang refers to a small town around the Dawang Temple, and in the broad sense, the Dawang area refers to a mountainous area of more than 2000 square kilometers around it.
The residents of Tawang are Tibetans and Monbas, and Tibetan Buddhism is prevalent. In 1951, India invaded southern Tibet, but the language and customs of the place cannot be changed so quickly.
To the north of Dawang, a winding mountain road extends northward, crosses the Bangla Pass, and finally extends to Cuona County.
This is the emergency road for combat readiness built by the troops of the Tibet Military Region, engineers, and militia in seven months and 11 days.The road construction army of tens of thousands of people used countless detonators, explosives, steel drills, and reinforced concrete to forcibly expand the path that Tibetans used to only allow people and horses to pass through into a highway.
Although it has been widened into a highway, there are still three sections of 3-100 meters on this highway that can only accommodate one car. These three sections must have permanent soldiers on duty 200 hours a day to coordinate traffic.
34 PLA soldiers and militiamen died during the road construction.
The jeep of Zhang Guohua, commander of the Tibet Military Region, drove from Cuona County to Dawang Town after several hours of bumpy rides.
"Hello, Commander."
"You all have worked hard." Zhang Guohua returned the gift.
"Our regiment's tunnel fortification work began in March, and the excavation of trench bunkers and simple tunnels was completed in June; after the road was opened to traffic last week, the transport of materials and equipment has greatly increased, and the tunnels have been further extended and reinforced. Open as many individual tunnels as possible."
Liu Guangtong, head of the 155th regiment, pointed to a solid mountain on the edge of Dawang Town: "Our defense system takes this mountain as the core, and the main firepower and troops are deployed around it."