’No fifth column'
NZPA-Reuter Peking China has reassured South-East Asian nations that there has been no change in its policy towards their Chinese residents and nas rejected Soviet charges the expatriate Chinese were being organised by Peking as a “fifth column.’ A long editorial in the; People's Daily” cited Singapore as an example of • Chinese community that had to abide by its own laws, and which would not be protected by China. The editorial, which also drew comparisons with Irish in New Zealand and Jews' and Poles in the United.
States, carefully spelled out once more Peking’s longstanding policy towards Chinese in other countries. It was a reply to the Soviet Union which, the Communist Party organ said, had used Peking's dispute with, Vietnam to claim that over-i seas Chinese had been organised by Peking : nto fifth' columns for subversion and to carry out what Moscow had called China's "big- ! power ambitions.”
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Press, 4 July 1978, Page 8
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