Peking appears to have served a warning to Pakistan against excessive dependence on the Soviet Union in regard to economic or military aid. The warning came in a highly critical report on Soviet aid to India broadcast by Peking Radio on the eve of President Ayub’s visit to the Soviet Union beginning to-day [September 25]. Accusing the Soviet Union of “exploiting” the Indian people through her aid, the report seeks to notify that China views with disfavour and suspicion all Soviet aid to developing countries including Pakistan – its firm ally. The report opens with the words: “For the past 10 years the Soviet revisionist ruling clique has dumped enormous economic and military aid in India to foster and buy over Indian reactionaries and to exploit Indian people.” While the hyperbolic and violently anti-Soviet nature of the broadcast is regarded as “not unusual” in the context of the current Sino-Soviet split, its timing has struck many as an expression of Peking’s displeasure over Ayub Khan’s aid-seeking visit. Claiming that the Soviet Union was the “biggest military aid” supplier to India, the Radio said the aid totalling 1,350 million U.S. dollars was concentrated in heavy industries “controlled by India’s bureaucrat capital.” It asserted that the Soviet Union had “monopolised” the designing, equipment and supply of spare parts of all their aid projects and had also taken in hand their management and administration. “They have gained control” said the report, “of a considerable part of the Indian heavy industry including one-fourth of the steel smelting, half of oil refining and one-fifth of the power industry.”