China Renews Attack With Racialism Charge

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30269, 23 October 1963, Page 13

China Renews Attack With Racialism Charge

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) PEKING, October 22. The Chinese Communist Party today broke a 26-day silence in its dispute with the Soviet Union with a new bitter attack. It accused the Soviet party and Mr Khrushchev of propagating white racialism and being “anologists for neo-colonialism.”

The attack, in a new mammoth article in today’s newspapers, ended speculation that the Chinese had decided to call a halt to their verbal assaults.

The article bitterly denounced the attitude of the Soviet party and of Mr Khrushchev personally to national liberation struggles. It was the fourth in a series of articles in the Chinese party’s main newspaper, the "People’s Daily.” and in iits theoretical journal “Red Flag.” in answer to the Soviet party’s open letter of last July, criticising the Chinese point of view. The article took nearly two hours to read over Peking Radio. The last articles in the series, denouncing Mr Khrushchev’s attitude to Jugoslavia, appeared on September 25. Since then there had been no major direct antiSoviet attacks in the Chinese press.

Most observers in Peking regarded this silence as purely temporary and probably caused by the desire not to embarrass the many foreign visitors in China for the National Day celebrations on October 1.

Theory Discounted But a few Western observers thought it meant a change in Chinese tactics in the dispute—a theory which could hold no water now the attack had been resumed, Reuter’s Peking correspondent said. Neither did the new article make any more credible reports circulated by some Western news media that the Chinese and Soviet parties would shortly resume the bilateral ideological talks broken off in Moscow in July, he said. East European diplomatic

sources have described these reports as “purest speculation.” They said the Soviet position appeared to be one of willingness to resume the talks, but only on Chinese initiative, since the Chinese party called the recess. The subject of today's article is one through which the Chinese Party has hoped to gain support against the Soviet position in the underdeveloped and newlyindependent countries.

The article said Soviet leaders had “set their minds upon opposing the national

liberation movement” because they were “mortally afraid of being involved in a conflict witih the imperialists.” Racialism Charge

K vigorously denied Soviet charges that the Chinese were trying to divide tfhe world on racialist lines.

It also strongly criticised Soviet leaders of taking “the attitude of great-power chauvinism and national egoism" ... in giving aid to newly independent countries.

The article said the Soviet leadens “have inherited the legacy of the German Emperor William II of half a century ago, raising a hue and cry against the ‘yellow peril’ and the “imminent menace of Genghis Khan’.”