China Policy

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31000, 4 March 1966, Page 12

China Policy

Sir, —“China does not seek world domination,” says Mr Ross. In view of the fact that the confessed ideal of the Communists is to bury the West, this is a strange statement to make. Has Mr Ross told the people of Tibet that China doesn’t use force? In 1919 Lenin announced the Communist Plan for world domination and Chinese Communists have done little to show that they are the “agrarian reformers” the liberal ilk of Mr Ross insisted they were in 1949 “D.O.W” claims China has no such plans, because she has no overseas bases. If there are enough people in New Zealand and the West like this, who persist in shutting their eyes to the obvious, China will need no bases. To use Lenin’s words, we will fall into their hands “. . . like a ripe fruit.”—Yours, etc., MURRAY A. WILLIAMS. February 23, 1966. Sir,—Strong anti-Commu-nists, such as L. J. Jones, do not seem to understand that the breeding grounds of revolution are hunger, misery and oppression. Communism is only one of a number of ideological offerings to people in such conditions. Once Communist nations become relatively rich and secure, such as the Soviet Union, they become much more interested in economic growth and stability than in messianic activities. All political systems, including communism, are probably phases in man’s evolutionary progress. Great political adjustments will be needed to cope with the unlimited abundance expected from cybernetics and automation. If the cold war could be ended, and arms spending converted into solving the world hunger and poverty problem, ideological differences would cease to be important. Rather than spend more and more on the means to human destruction, the rich nations, including the Communists, should invest more in construction of a better world.—Yours, etc., L. F. J. ROSS. February 28, 1966.