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me - - -although I associate myself with the view we shall
recognize them sooner or later- -maybe they realize that
and maybe they realize that we will do it sooner or later
and, therefore, they will not be party to any negotiation.
CHAIRMAN: Very briefly, as you know, the whole his-
tory of our recognition policy has been one of fluctuation,
if you take the entire period of the country The out-
standing position of the Department on recognition ties in
particularly with two things: first, it is a question of
view as to whether 11 is the government of the country
running it; second, if it is, the government's will to
carry out international obligations. Those are the two
key points, I think, in our standing recognition policy.
MR. COONS: May I ask another question? Testerday
we were calking about the desirability of allowing trade
to proceed with the Communist areas of China. Let us say
we will, from the standpoint of timing, withhold recog-
nition or China's Communist Covernment for a matter of
weeks or months. In the meanwhile is 1t possible for us
to have a policy? Is there any practicality in allowing
a laissez-faire relationship with American trade vis-a-vis
those areas under control of the Chinese Communists, or
does that also seem to be tied up with the question of
political recognition?
MR. BALLANTINE: I would like to raise a small voice
towand putting a brake on this baudwagon. I think we need
to recognize facts. We are confronted with a dilemma here.
If we accept the idea that we have to recognize right away
or feel we have to jump before we are forced into jumping,
I think that we lose a great deal of bargaining power. We
lose an opportunity to get conditions we want. The Soviet
bloc has blocked the admission into the United Nations of
a number of states.
I think there is a good deal of room for interpreta-
cion as to what constitutes the Communists' having an
effective government in all China. There is room for
interpretation as to our judgment as to their ability to
carry out international obligations and I don't think that
we should malco any statement or make any public announce-
ment at this time aa a sort of preparatory step coward
getting into this thing, because then we will be open
immediately to the charge we have further prejudiced the
position of the Nationalist Government of China and that
TRUNAR
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