Red China Struggles Despite Soviet Tactics
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ANXIENT ANSWERS When in 1850-60, the Russians began cutting down on trade with Red China, withdrew their technicians and broke their promise to help with nuclear know-how, it was in a ruthless campaign to force the Red Chinese back into the role of subservient satellite.
But the picture as seen from such vantage points along the Chinese perimeter as Hong Kong and Tokyo was a somber one, noteworthy chiefly for the determination of Red China's angry leaders to convert their backward nation into a world power regardless of cost to the Chinese people.
By Phil Newsom
RED CHINA'S National People's Congress is a rubber stamp body which has met infrequently as Red China's problems have multiplied. But it draws together in Peking more than 1,000 delegates from the far reaches of China, Chinese as well as such minorities as Mongols, the Kazakhs and the Uighurs.
This year's meeting, just concluded, ended upon a note both triumphant and defiant. The final communique said:
And it sets the party line.
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"We have overcome the economic difficulties caused by three successive years of serious natural calamities and by the perfidious action of those who unilaterally tore up agreements and withdrew experts."
Simultaneously, the "Great leap forward" proclaimed by Red Chinese leader Mao Tse-Tung and the massive communes set up as the last step toward the communication of more than 700 million Chinese began showing positive signs of failure.
Compounding the Chinese difficulties were natural disasters of drought and flooding.
It could not rightfully be called, as some did, a declaration of independence from Russia, for the line between Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Tse-Tung had been drawn long ago.
But it was a declaration that the Soviet pressure tactics had failed.
THE COMMUNIQUE also said that Red China's debt to Russia would be paid by the end of 1965 and that last year had seen increases
both in industrial and agricultural production.
- Red China's internal strains and her quarrel with Russia are forcing her to project a softer image toward the West, excluding the United States.
As usual specific figures were lacking.
It has been estimated that Red China's grain harvest this year will be greater than last but still short of the 185 million metric tons produced in 1957. Since Red China's population has increased more than 75 million since then, widespread hunger still may be forecast for the Chinese people despite huge purchases of grain from Canada and Australia.
Soviet Russia's aid to Red China in the latter's first nine years has been estimated at more than $2.5 billion, a further measure of the sacrifices demanded if such massive aid truly is to be repaid by the end of 1965. For Western consideration there is this:
- Frictions between the Soviet Union and Red China now seem certain to increase, with the possibility of border clashes in contested regions not to be discounted.
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