Reply Telegram to Mr. Sarat Bose [1] Congratulating the Founding of the People’s Republic of China (November 19, 1949)  Mr. Sarat Bose:  We thank you for your congratulations on the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The Chinese people welcome the establishment of broad friendship with the Indian people and with all oppressed nations, in order jointly to oppose imperialist aggression.  Mao Zedong November 19, 1949  Printed according to the November 20, 1949 issue of the People’s Daily.  Notes [1] Sarat Bose was at that time the leader of the Socialist Republican Party of India.