China
Sir,—You make the. issue in your editorial on China very complicated. Actually it is quite simple. China has won her independence at last and has stood up, but there are many people who would deny China this right. From the first opium war of 1838, when Britain forced China to buy opium, and then had the effrontery to impose the Treaty of Nanking on China by which among other things, Hong Kong was forcibly taken away, to the second opium war, 15 years later, with more impositions, to the Sino-Japanese war of 1894, to the Boxer uprisings of 1900, when China objected to the presence of missionaries, to the Japanese invasion of 1937, China has been subjected to foreign Imperialism with the loss of many of her people. Now the latecomer, the United States, is escalating the war in Vietnam for a threatened attack on China. China wants to purify her country. That is the simple issue.—Yours, etc., P.J.A. March 13, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31318, 14 March 1967, Page 16
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