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McMullen, Richard E.
Chinese. This domination would have dictated a Soviet technological course; Mao assigned paramountcy to agriculture. Eight hundred million people had to be fed. 2) The Chinese were irked at...
...I ) The U.S...
...Consultations with the Japanese are obviously indicated as are negotiations with the Philippines over our bases on their islands...
...2) The Chinese should settle outstanding claims of Americans over property seized there following the revolution, as the U.S...
...imperialist thrust as blunted due to widespread domestic disillusionment over Vietnam...
...28, 1972, Nixon and Kissinger opened the door to revived relations through which we are diplomatically bound to walk...
...2) The Chinese were irked at Soviet refusal to alleviate the famine by sharing their food supply, however limited...
...should grant China "most-favored-nation treatment for her goods...
...For all their efforts, the Chinese appear as if in a chess game on a vast board of world powers, with only pawns in hand for their moves...
...The problems of defense in the Far East are admittedly complicated and require diplomatic balance...
...The USSR is consequently more likely to kindle war, in the Chinese view, than the U.S...
...forces and military installations from Taiwan...
...The U.S...
...Abroad, they can be construed as acts of bad faith, unilaterally breaking the Shanghai Communiqu6 in which the U.S...
...I~tente between the superpowers is illusory and functions merely as a smokescreen for an accelerated arms race...
...They see the U.S...
...When asked whether the threat of nuclear destruction is not a significant deterrent, the Chinese parry that nuclear weapons might be avoided...
...At home, these arms transfers look like Pentagon intrusion into foreign policy and fat subsidies for military contractors...
...5) Lastly, perhaps chiefly, the USSR, subscribing to non-proliferation well before agreements were signed with the U.S., refused point blank to share the nuclear bomb with the Chinese...
...Moreover, economic development can be speeded by investment of foreign capital...
...acknowledged 'that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China...
...does not challenge that position...
...Japan and the U.S...
...promised t h a t " i t will progressively reduce its forces and military installations as the tensions in that area diminish...
...The Chinese are striving mightily to break out of their diplomatic isolation...
...They see the USSR, on the other hand, as a rising empire, aggressively bent upon world control of resources and devoting twice its GNP to armaments as compared with the U.S...
...Commonweal: 397...
...3) The Chinese were rebuffed by the Soviets also in their desire to expand into Siberia in search of additional arable land, even for temporary cultivation...
...The Chinese seem resolutely determined to redress remnants of 19th century imperialism, especially residual aspects of foreign domination such as borders drawn or provinces separated in that epoch...
...For our part, the U.S...
...In some measure, they unilaterally abrogated the defense pact with Taiwan of 1954 by executive fiat...
...and the USSR as primordial, making a third World War inevitable within the next quarter century, and likely within the decade...
...The Carter administration cannot fail to take notice...
...are their best potential trading partners...
...4) Washington should stop rearming Taiwan with sophisticated weapons as begun in 1974 at the rate of some $200 million annually...
...The time is propitious, the proposition is popular on both sides...
...To ptit it another way, they are still chasing "paper tigers" as they did in the '50's, but today's tigers have changed color...
...They view the race for world domination between the U.S...
...00000000000000 RICHARD E. MCMULLEN TBREE LEAVES Those three brown leaves scratching on their fragile tips inside the door where a breeze hurried them pause like children who've entered a desolate hou~--if I spoke now they would run...
...If, however, they .should be employed as a last resort, the Chinese respond that "half of the human race will survive," meaning their half...
...China's foreign policy is intensely nationalistic...
...4) Clashes erupted along the extensive undelineated border...
...The color blindness provides an excellent opportunity for the U.S...
...Normalized relations are patently in our national and business interests...
...to normalize its relations with China, thereby contributing to stability in the Far East, and to enhancing its own trade position in that sphere...
...reciprocally releases frozen Chinese assets in the U.S...
...This rationale helps explain China's trade and credits to the military junta in Chile and her alliance with the CIA-backed forces in Angola and other African trouble spots...
...The clause continues to reaffirm America's "interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question by the Chinese themselves" and it "affirms the ultimate objective of the withdrawal of all U.S...
...3) Washington should withdraw troops from and abrogate its security treaty with Taiwan signed in December 1954, ending these diplomatic ties, while arranging informal guarantees for the huge American investments there...
...When they signed the accord on Feb...
...The following affirmative steps would seem logical as another American initiative...
Vol. 104 • June 1977 • No. 13
