NEED TO DEAL WITH CHINA

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29380, 6 December 1960, Page 10

NEED TO DEAL WITH CHINA

“Communist Bloc Has Two Heads”

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, December 4. China should be admitted to the United Nations and included in any further discussions on disarmament and controls according to the. “Observer.” "Although we may never dis. cover what really happened in the great Communist huddle which has. just ended at the Kremlin, one thing is sure: the Communist bloc, which used to have one head, now has two. “For the West, the implications are plain: the Soviet Union can no longer speak for China, ar.d if we want to do business with the Communist world for the preservation of peace, we must have dealings with -both countries.

“This means bringing China into the international community —both into its permanent institutions, the United Nations and its agencies, and into the special ad hoc conferences on disarmament and controls.

“It would be dangerous folly to exaggerate the Sino-Soviet differences. The two dynamic Communist empires have far too much in common—including the assumption of a basic hostility between our society and theirs—to fall apart in the face of what they would regard as the common capitalist enemy” said the newspaper. “Nevertheless, the ‘unexpectedly protracted Kremlin conference, the barely veiled reciprocal attacks in the Chinese and Soviet press that went cn right through it, and the final communique anouncing that the participants had 'acquainted themselves with each other’s views, and positions,’ are uncontestable evidence that the Soviet Union’s supremacy is no longer unchallenged. “In some wavs, the West might be worse off now that the Chinese have asserted their separate identity. Mr Mao Tsetung probably has better international manners,, but he will almost certainly be a toughter customer than Mr Khrushchev, who staked his reputation on Fast-Wfest negotiations,” the paper said.