And nothing would be more important to them than to finally get the U.S. to agree to surrender the Chinese province of Taiwan, as promised in the Shanghai communique, whose implementation is now several years overdue. In an article in the Wall Street Journal of Aug. 8 he argues that the U. S., should honor its commitment on the return of Taiwan. Not altogether, he hastens to add, but something in the nature of the type of relationship that Japan and China have developed. His argument is based on altogether different grounds. They are then very likely to move in new directions.
Several trends are very possible, even probable.
This thought has been an ever-present nightmare to the U.S. ruling class. The reasons lie deep in the basically analogous social structures that characterize the USSR and China. Both have planned economies with public ownership of the basic means of production. Both have the same sociological and class foundations. And from an objective point of view, from the viewpoint of their historical evolution, both are hostile to imperialism and bourgeois monopolist class domination.