India should take to heart former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s prescient observation that “China, a nation of foreign and security policy realists, respects strategic strength and is contemptuous of vacillation and weakness.” After all, one of the lessons of the 1962 war was that a vacillating response to Chinese aggression is self-defeating, particularly in situations like that posed by the incursion at Daulat Beg Oldie.
印度应该认真思考前澳大利亚总理陆克文颇具远见卓识的观察：“中国是外交和安全政策的现实主义者，它尊重战略强硬，鄙视犹豫和软弱。”毕竟，1962年之战的一个教训是对中国的进犯的软弱反应无异于自掘坟墓，特别是在入侵道拉伯格玉尔地这样的局面上。