The chronicle., 1963-11-06

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itonal communism.
The editorial was preceded on
Sept. 81 by a Kremlin declara-
ton which listed a host Of seri-
GUS Sino-Soviet interstate con-
flicts (as distinguished from
theological divergences) high
lighted by the charge that China
was engaged in an old fashioned
imperialist practice - territor-
ial grabs.
The traditional 800 year : old
great power conflict between
czarlst Russia and imperial Chi
ma appeared to be flaring up
again - and out in the open
theology Not Enough
Common Marxist ideology- ap-
pears no more able to remove
the dead hand of history than
common religious faith pre-
vented the Christian nations in
Europe from warning for cen
turtles over dynastic and terri
t0rial claims.
Charging that the Chinese had
deliberately made more than S.
600 border incursions across the
Soviet frontier in the Siberian
Amur and Ussuri valleys, the
kremlin Sternly warned against
Chinese efforts "artifically to
create territorial problems . .
by reference to old testament
data and the tombS of anceS-
tors"
Earlier in September, Picking
had accused Soviet authorities
III Slnklang (another historical
ly disputed area in Chinese Cen
tral Asia) of coercing tens of
thousands Of Chinese citizens in.
to fleeing to the Soviet Union
Say Refugees Prosecuted
In the Soviet version, about
$4,000 men, women and children
were forced by racist persecu-
ton and famine to abandon the
present communes and seek
refuge across the border in So
Wet Kazakhstan.
Such incidents over Sinkiang's
vast, ~unclearly demarcated and
largely desert border are bound
to recur, giving the growing bit
ternesS between the two ma
tons and the Chinese refusal,
as the Russians claim, to nego-
tate the dispute.
The RuSSian-C Chinese border.
the longest in the world, is di-
vided into two parts. The east
ern half of the frontier sepa-
rates the Soviet Siberian far
east from Manchuria and the
west segment divides Sinkiang
from Soviet Central Asia.
In the middle is the huge
buffer" border state of Mon
golia, whose existence was
legally recognized by Picking
and which appears to be Mos
cows faithful ally.
AS far back as 1854 - when
Sino-Soviet relations were still
in their honeymoon stage - the
Chinese published a map of
their 1910 frontiers which, they
claimed, extended beyond the
Amur River Valley and east
ward to cover the whole
Siberian Pacific Coast including
the great port Of Vladivostok,
the maritime province and SAX
hahn Island.
The same map included in
the Chinese empire large areas
(about half a million square
miles, of present Soviet Central
Asia including the capital cities
of Tashkent (Uzekistan), Frunze
Kirkhiziaz and Alma Alta Ka-
zakhstan).
Won't Recognize Treaties
Following a pause Of nine
years Picking this year, in an
official declaration, said that it
would not recognize the 'un-
equal treaties" of the last three
centuries under which the i'm
perialist powers carved up the
crumbling and helpless Chinese
empire.
The Soviet Union, as the sue
cessor of czarist. Russia, was
held to be the legatee of czarist
Imperialism. But the Soviets
don't accept that argument and
have told the Chinese that ref
erence to historical claims
would be embarking on an ex-
tremely dangerous path"
1t is not theology alone that
bears the seed of conflict be-
tween the Soviet Union and
China.
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