Evening star., 1951-02-22
Behind the Bamboo Curton'
Chinese Red Regime Has Done
More Than C. Chiong, Writer Says


commission angered them and
they declared they would never
admit the right of Latin America
to have any say in the affairs of
China or in any dispute to which
China is party.
And. of course. in further proof
of what they regard as American
villainy they point to Chang Ikai-
shek and Syngman Rhee, who
have in the opinion of the Chinese
Communists draped themselves
round Gen. MacArthur's neck.
The war in Korea, though
waged on very limited scale. is
already somewhat of a surprise to
the Chinese Communists. The cas-
ualties are greater than they ex-
pected. The hospitals in Man
churia are unequal to the influx.
and hospitals in Peiping are
heavily denuded of nurses. as they
have gone to the front.
Question of Supply.
Though Chinese manpower may
be inexhaustible, the new Chinese
statesmen are not inhumanly in
different to the sacrifice of their
soldiers. They donot regard them
as mere cannon fodder.
There is also the urgent prac-
tical question of supply. Without
gasoline. communications fail,
and neither ammunition nor food
can reach the front line with
regularity.
The fuel problem is major one
Peiping and Tientsin are short of
gasoline. In Peiping. only the top
service branches and the diplo-
matte corps get gasoline. In both
cities. there are stray charcoal
burning taxis and buses and there
are Sofne electric trans. For the
restF the most modern form of
transport is the pushbike and the
pedicab.
II have asked myself: How has
the country-which. compared
with slts prospective opponents.
mightkbe said to be without any
mechanical transport and to de-
pend solely on the muscles of men
and of not very powerful draft
animals operating over rough
surfaces-envisaged the nature of
war with the United Nations?
Apart from Soviet intervention,
the possibility of exhausting the
resources of the United Nations
could hardly be said to exist.
Chinese Soviet Relations.
This brings us to the con-
sideration of Chinese-Soviet re-
lations. That these have been con-
sistently cordial. or at least as
cordial as relations between two
nations without blood tie ever are,
seems certain.
Mao Tse-tung. though. he takes
long views and is convinced of the
'inevitability of gradualness," is
nonetheless firm believer in what
he calls Marx-Leninism. The
Chinese Communist leader will ac-
cept coalitions. He regards Chinese
capitalists as his present friends
and not as enemies. He wants to
encourage private enterprise. He
reckons the bourgeoisie as per-
manent element in society, and he
does not contemplate rural col
lectivization nor interference with
new peasant ownership of land for
at least a generation.
But he is devoted to his concep-
ton of Marx-Leninism. Conse-
quently, he regards the Soviet
Union as his natural ally. And he
is convinced that China must have
an ally. He rebukes those who are
so foolish as to believe that in
a modern world China can stand
alone. Thus he has said:
TT is impossible for genuine
peoples revolution in any country
to win. its own victory without
many different kinds of help from
international revolutionary forces.
International Help Needed.
Even should the victory be
won, it could not be consolidated
without international help. This
was true of the victory and con-
Solidation of the October revolu-
ton, as Stain long ago told us"
While I was in Peiping, the
Soviet Union strengthened Com
munist China's faith in her ally
by handing over to her the Man
churian Railway and by the an
nouncement that the restoration
of dismantled factories in Man
churia had been completed.
Thus the railway has been
given to China in advance of
the agreed date-which, accord
ing to treaty signed a year ago.
was to be on the conclusion of
a peace treaty with Japan, but in
any case not later than the end
of 1852. The announcement says
that. as was provided in last
years treaty. the management
of the railway will alternate pc
riodically between representatives
of China and the Soviet Union.
The successful completion of
restoration of the removed plants
and of the transfer of the rail-
way has produced a great out
burst of gratitude to the Soviet
Union in the Chinese Communist
press.
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