I hope he is better "walking by his talk". With what has been happening in India, intelligence failure leading to bomb blasts etc., I really hope the General really meant what he spoke.
First of all, we have to maintain the kind of relationship with our neighbours that mutally benifits us. And currently we should be taking benifits of the economic development wave asia is going through, together.
All said and done, China has recently made lots of controversial statements related to the bordering state of Arunachal Pradesh. So the Indian defense forces should better be prepared for any kind of actions that goes against our country's benifit.
