(Note, in May 1959, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs drafted a written statement for Ambassador Pan XX to deliver to Dutt, the Foreign Secretary of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs. Chairman Mao Zedong added this passage when reviewing the draft. The title was added by the original editor.)

In general, India is a friendly country to China; it has been so for more than a thousand years, and we believe it will be so for a thousand, ten thousand years to come. The enemies of the Chinese people are in the East. American imperialism has many military bases in Taiwan, in South Korea, in Japan, and in the Philippines; all are directed against China. China's main attention and policy of struggle are in the East, in the West Pacific region, against the vicious and aggressive American imperialism, and not in India, not in any country in Southeast Asia or South Asia. Although the Philippines, Thailand, and Pakistan have joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, which is aimed at China, we still do not treat these three countries as our main enemies. Our main enemy is American imperialism. India did not join the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization; India is not our adversary, but our friend. China will not be so foolish as to make an enemy of the United States in the East and also make an enemy of India in the West. The suppression of the rebellion in Tibet and the implementation of democratic reforms will not in the least threaten India. You just wait and see. "As a long road tests a horse's strength, so a long time reveals a person's heart" (a Chinese saying). In three years, five years, ten years, twenty years, a hundred years, ... you will eventually understand whether the relationship between China's Tibet region and India is friendly or hostile. We cannot have two focal points; we cannot treat friends as enemies. This is our national policy. The quarrel between our two countries over the past few years, especially in the last three months, is merely an episode in the thousand- and ten-thousand-year process of friendship between our two countries. It is not worth the great alarm of the broad masses of the people and the government authorities of our two countries. Those words we said in the preceding paragraphs of this text, those principled positions, those lines of right and wrong, absolutely had to be said. Without saying them, the current disagreements between our two countries cannot be resolved. But the scope to which those words refer is merely temporary and local—that is, pertaining only to the one place of Tibet and the momentary disagreements between our two countries. Indian friends, what are your thoughts? Will you agree with this way of thinking of ours? Regarding the viewpoint that China's main attention can only be placed on China's East, and cannot and need not be placed on China's Southwest, our country's leader, Chairman Mao Zedong, has spoken with the former Indian Ambassador to China, Mr. Nehru, on many occasions. Ambassador Nehru understood and appreciated this point very well. It is not known whether the former Indian Ambassador relayed these words to the Indian authorities. Friends, as we see it, you also cannot have two lines, can you? If that is the case, then the meeting point for our two sides is here. Please consider it. Please allow me to take this opportunity to send my greetings to the Indian leader, Mr. Nehru.