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light of what has gone on over the past 20 years, Chou's
statements about China's current obsessions are extraor-
dinary. His remarks with Reston make it clear that
Peking worries most about the Japanese and Russians.
And the fact that he went out of his way to downgrade
propaganda and separate it from policy seems
enormously important in the light of continuing Peking
propaganda attacks on the US. The apparent intensity
of Chou's fears of Japan is, in fact, surprising. Chou
also notes the Russians are busily spreading their
domination in the Mideast and assertively thrusting
new naval power into the Indian and Pacific oceans,
and ties this to China's concern about the possibility
of major war. Since Chou probably will talk to RN
about that, too, the Russians are making their own
fears known. The latest Soviet comment suggests
dread of something deeply anti-Soviet about the Chou-
Nixon contact
For 20 years Peking has demanded
the total ejection of the US from Asia. Now it has
misgivings about what will happen if and when US
military power is substantially or totally withdrawn.
Will there be vacuums in Korea and the Taiwan area?
If so, who will fill them? Chou wants to tell RN he
feels that the US made it possible for Japan to become
the threat to China he now professes to see. Chou
wants to tell RN he fears the Nixon Doctrine. As Chou
sees it, the doctrine means that America will supply
arms and a nuclear umbrella for Asian nations which
thereafter will be on their own for defense. Chou
seems afraid this will encourage Japan to develop
militarily and even to build nuclear weapons. So Chou
seems to want positive results from his meeting with
RN, Taiwan is a key question, but there is a hint that
Chou is not in a great hurry. He doesn't expect solu-
tions quickly. In fact, he doesn't even give Taiwan
top priority. In all this there is a tantalizing hint of
Peking's willingness to talk, perhaps over a long time,
bout a Taiwan settlement. Whi le it is an internal
question, it involves the US because of 21 years of
support of Chiang, Chou seems to be saying
Chou
ha S left the impression that he doesn't expect dramatic
results from his initial contact with RN, but that all
he seeks is a start toward solutions which will emerge
at some future time. (Ryan, AP)
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