The report proves that talk about China's "unprovoked aggression" is "utterly false" and that India was the aggressor in 1962, Maxwell said in an interview to the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post. "But of course it's (HBR) not spelled out in those terms, the political conclusion is buried in dense military jargon, written by soldiers for soldiers, the report is hard reading for unversed civilians," he said.