Since 1959 in step with the sharpening of the class struggle in India, and the increasingly reactionary course followed by the ruling strata of the Indian national bourgeoisie, provocations and aggression against the People’s Republic of China have been increasing along the Indian frontier.
These acts are linked with the introduction of the “new strategy” of U.S. imperialism and the increased activity of the revisionists in the heart of the international communist movement.
Through all these events the peaceful policy of socialist China has been once again dramatically demonstrated to all unbiased observers. The Government of the People’s Republic of China has never stopped proposing negotiations and has made a great number of unilateral peaceful gestures in order to bring about the opening of negotiations, despite the refusals of Nehru and his continuing aggression. But what has been the attitude of the Khrushchov group?
Neutrality towards a socialist country under attack would have been an inadmissible position, contrary to proletarian internationalism. But under the cloak of a self-styled “neutrality,” and with hypocritical remarks about “their sister China” and “their friend India,” Khrushchov has continually and more and more openly supported the reactionary Indian national bourgeoisie in its aggression which was instigated by the American imperialists.
Ever since 1959 Khrushchov has been saying on the subject of the “Sino-Indian frontier incidents” (in other words the resistance to Indian aggression by the People’s Republic of China), that they were “deplorable and stupid.”
Since then Khrushchov has not only never condemned Indian aggression, but has actually implied that China was the aggressor.
While he refused all aid to the People’s Republic of China he carried treachery to its very limit by competing with the imperialists in supplying arms to Nehru – helicopters, military aircraft and now missiles.
This, then, is the “pacifism” of Khrushchov. This is his “peaceful competition” with imperialism. Communists must denounce this unprecedented betrayal of proletarian internationalism.