CHINA DENOUNCES U.S. PLAN

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32677, 5 August 1971, Page 14

CHINA DENOUNCES U.S. PLAN

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) TOKYO, August 4. China today ridiculed the United States plan for dealing with the China question in the United Nations, declaring that it “peddles the preposterous proposition of two Chinas.”

Hsinhua, the official Chinese news agency, said that the policy statement by the United States Secretary of State (Mr Rogers) was “absurd” and reflected the increasing “U.S. predicament.”

In his statement on Monday, Mr Rogers said that the United States would no longer oppose the seating of China in the United Nations, but would stand firm against the expulsion of Taiwan. Both China and Taiwan have in the past rejected suggestions of “two Chinas.” The dispatch noted that Mr Rogers had said that the decision was in accord with President Nixon’s desire for normal relations with China, in the interests of world peace. “This fully lays bare the counter - revolutionary, double-dealing tricks of United States imperialism, which says one thing and does another.” Noting that Mr Rogers had said that the United States was seeking to deal with “the realities of the world in which we live,” Hsinhua declared: “It is bare-faced lying. Everybody knows clearly that the legacies of the past Rogers talked about mean the Chiang Kai-shek clique, which has long been

spurned by the Chinese people and was created single-handed by U.S. imperialism.” Mr Rogers’s so-called realities of “two Chinas” were his sheer fancy. . “There is only one China in the world, that is, the People’s Republic of China. U.S. imperialism will never succeed in its plot if it insists

on making itself the enemy of the Chinese people, obdurately pushing the ‘two Chinas’ scheme and euphemistically describing this as ‘realities’.” The agency statement recalled last year’s United Nations vote, which gave China’s admission a majority for the first time but fell short of the required twothirds as an “important question.” It said that China had more support this year and that the United States was “faced with the predicament

of being more isolated than ever” and as a result had to change its tactics.

It said that the United States had delayed' making its statement on the China question and that this showed that the United States, unreconciled to its failure, still wanted to resort to the “two China’s plot, to bar the advance of the wheel of history.”

Hsinhua said that Mr Rogers had told reporters that the United States would consider the possible expulsion of Taiwan as obviously an “important question,” and asserted that this showed what a painstaking effort U.S. imperialism was making to have the “Chiang gang” hang on in the United Nations.

It also accused “Japanese reactionaries” of working for the plan outlined by the United States.