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I had assumed
naively that the detailed research I had done with so much effort on the
Sino-Indian dispute would be widely read and would awaken world
opinion to the facts.
But publication had not been easy. At the time I was supposed to be
studying the Japanese economy full-time at the Australian National
University. I had reluctantly been given a mere six months to go off and
write the book. The ANU Press, which earlier had promised to publish
the book, rejected it on the advice of the then heavily pro-government
foreign policy International Relations Department (it was also heavily
infiltrated by intelligence people determined to keep dangerous anti-
government policy academics like myself at bay).
And to think that it all began at that remote Dho La Strip, and that the
inability of people like myself to get the facts out was at least partly
responsible for the subsequent tragedy