Evening star., 1951-05-21
Our Policy Toward Peiping

Coincident with the General Assembly's
47-to-0 vote for United Nations arms embargo
against Communist China and North Korea,
Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary OF State for Far
Eastern Affairs, has left no room for doubt that
American policy toward the Red regime at
Peiping has undergone marked change since
last June. It is no longer based on wait-and-
see attitude The grimly revealing course OF
events has greatly hardened it. At one time
Mao Tze-tung and his clique may have seemed
to be independent revolutionaries with the in
terests of their own country at heart, but now,
pimarily as a result of their criminal deeds since
November, they are recognized for what they
really are-puppet aggressors in the service OF
the Kremlin.
Accordingly, as Mr.. Rusk has emphasized,
the United States today looks upon the Peiping
regime as something that may be regarded as
"a colonial Russian government or a large
scale 'slavic Manchukuo." Clearly enough, "1t
Is not Chinese. 1t is not entitled to speak for
China in the community Of nations. 1t Is enti-
tied only to the fruits of its own conduct-the
fruits of aggression upon which it is now will
fully, openly and senselessly embarked" BY way
of contrast, the Nationalist government OF
Chang Kai-shek, even though the territory
under its control is restricted to Formosa, is
much more authentic representative of the views
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their historic demand for independence from
foreign control" of the sort that the Kremlin
is attempting to impose through the tratorous
front of Mao and his Communist co-conspirators.
In view of such facts, the United States,
despite its wait-and-see attitude prior to Red
Peipings aggression in Korea is now very
emphatically determined as Mr.. Rusk has
indicated, to continue % to recognize Chiang's
Nationalist government as the only legitimate
representative of China and (2) to support that
government with important aid and assistance"
Further, by implication, Mr.. Rusk has appealed
to the Chinese people to rebel against Mao's
regime promising them that if they do, If they
assert their freedom" against those who are
seeking to convert their country into Kremlin-
serving land Of tyranny and aggression, they will
be able to count on powerful support from
America and all like-minded nations. In a
sense, this appeal is also addressed to those
Communists in China (and there may be many
of them who feel patriotic Titoist inclination
to throw off Moscow's yoke
Speaking from the same platform, John
Foster Dulles and Senator Paul H. Douglas have
given voice to essentially the same views as Mr.
Rusk. What the views add up to is striking
evidence that our policy toward China is quite
different today from what it was a year ago.
Shifting to strong support of Generalissimo
Chang and the Nationalists, it has gone on the
offensive against puppet Peiping-an offensive
u that may even include active efforts to promote
an internal Chinese rebellion. Mao and his
colleagues have asked for this. With their
"hate-America" campaign they have gone out
of their way to win our enmity. As result,
they can be sure that it will be theirs unless and
until, as Mr.. Dulles has declared they change
their conduct completely and offer clear proof
of desire to make amends for their crimes
against the historic friendship between us and
the great people they have so grievously misled.