ISSUES INVOLVED IN CHINA

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25953, 5 November 1949, Page 7

ISSUES INVOLVED IN CHINA

According to Reston, the question of Recognising the Chinese Communist ■Government has raised a number of Complicated issues for the three ■Foreign Ministers. The British Govjernment, he says, is under pressure Krom the extreme Left (ior ideological Reasons), from the extreme Kight (for •commercial reasons), and from Australia and India (for geographic reasons) to recognise the Communists as the legitimate Government of China.

Reston continues: “The United States would, however, rather not take such lection at this time, mainly because the Chinese Communists have not met the

tests for recognition, and because there are powerful forces in the United States supporting the Chinese Nationalists.

'Officials in Washington see little chance of the three Foreign Ministers being able to agree about China. If the three Governments cannot agree on when to recognise the Communist Government, this will make their deliberations on the Japanese treaty all the more difficult, for China must be included in any Japanese peace conference, and until everybody recognises the same Government of China, the conference on the peace treaty will probably have to be postponed.