During the six months of discussions, the Indian ambassador to China, P. Nedyam Raghavan, failed to realize that while the Chinese wanted to resolve the Tibet problem quickly, their strategy with regard to the Sino-Indian border was quite the opposite. A memo accessed from the Chinese Foreign Ministry dated 21 October 1953 clearly states that the Tawang issue needed to be kept ‘alive’ and that it would be beneficial for the Chinese ‘to drag on these issues for the time being’.
