In one of the most incisive books written about the Tibetan situation, "The Fate of Tibet: When big insects eat small insects" by Claude Arpi, Mr. Arpi shows that not only did the Nehru government betray Tibet, but it also severely destabilized India's national security. In 1947, India had special rights in Tibet, a legacy of the British Raj. In 1949, though clearly aware of China's strategic interests in Tibet, Nehru failed to get any assurance from China that it would not invade the region. However, what is worse is the fact that he did nothing to prevent China from committing blatant aggression against a weak and peace loving Tibet, in 1950. Mr. Arpi provides proof in his book that argument that India was not in a position to halt Chinese aggression in Tibet in 1950 is erroneous and misleading. India had three trade agencies with military escorts within Tibet and with the support and help of the democratic world could have checked the communist aggression. Paying more attention to the Korean War than the happenings in Tibet, Nehru gave an open and clear invitation to China that she could unhesitatingly conquer the poor and helpless nation. In one stroke, Nehru's government was single-handedly responsible for converting the Indo-Tibet border into the Indo-China border. Nehru's reaction was expressed merely in words saying that the "Indian government was perplexed and disappointed by the Chinese Government's action".

Once Tibet was occupied, China undertook a gigantic road-building program between 1951-52. In 1959, Nehru said that it had taken his government over 2 years to notice that the Chinese had been building a road on the barren heights of Aksai-Chin plateau in Ladhak. In his book Mr. Arpi shows that Nehru and his associate Krishna Menon were fully aware of the Chinese encroachment in Aksai-Chin. In 1955, an English Mountaineer named Sydney Wignall deputed by General Thimayya verified reports that the Chinese were building a road through Aksai-Chin. This basically shows that government did know about the encroachment but did nothing about it.

After the Chinese invasion, the Indian government was expected to spring to its feet and make an attempt to consolidate its borders with China. Instead Pandit Nehru started an era of false and pretentious friendship with the Chinese, which culminated in the famous Hindi-Chini-Bhai-Bhai campaign. The Chinese for one, never considered India as any friend, instead cleverly used Nehru's stupidity to further their interests. After having "gifted" Tibet to China, the fictitious fraternization concluded in the so-called "Panch-Sheel" Treaty. Prime Minister Nehru and the Chinese counter part, Chou-En-Lai, signed this treaty on April 29, 1954. "Panch Sheel" literally meant five norms of good conduct, viz. mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty, mutual non- aggression, mutual non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit and peaceful co-existence. China very diplomatically signed the treaty but was never intent on following its norms. The treaty was aptly described in the Indian Parliament by the Late Acharaya J.B. Kripalani, a former President of the ruling Congress Party, as "born in sin".