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global great power ambitions

By SPARTAK BEGLOV

APN Political Correspondent

On August 25 at a formal recep-
tionin Zagreb, Chinese leader Hua
Kuo-Feng was pouring out
lavishly the most beautiful words
about Peking’s loyalty to the
cause of ‘‘friendship’’ among the
nations. In the area of Huong Hoa
on the border between China
and socialist Vietnam, hundreds
of Chinese soldiers and security
men disguised as civilians in-
truded into Vietnamese territory,
killing two persons and wounding
20

This new act of violence and
pressure by Peking on another
country, which only yesterday
ranked among the ‘brothers
linked by permanent bonds of
friendship with China,”’ indicates
better than any words that for

Mao’s heirs there is nothing per- ‘

manent or sacred, except their
own global great-power ambi-
tions.

To realize them, they are pre-
pared to strike a deal with any-
body and encourage strife any-
where. Today they are showering
compliments on those in whom
they secretly expect to find a tool
to disunite the forces of socialism
by exaggerated praise for ‘‘re-
volutionary example.’’ Tomor-

row they will shake with equal en-
thusiasm a dictator’s hand soaked
in the blood of sons and daughters
of the crucified revolution.

The verbal assurances of
“‘deep respect’’ for the original
socialist roads, made yesterday in
Bucharest and Belgrade, will to-
morrow be followed by a fresh

outburst of slanderous attacks .

against the first socialist state in
the Western Hemisphere, which
has “‘wronged’’ Peking by its
consistent internationalism .and
even perhaps frustrated China’s
calculations to turn Cuba into a
“Caribbean Albania.”’

But then, Albania itself has had
a full cupful of perfidy on the part
of the “‘permanent ally”’ and is left
with only fragments of the vessel
of former. Peking favors in its
hands.

The “solidarity with the policy
of non-alignment,’’ of which Pek-
ing propagandists have been talk-
ing so tirelessly, is being i increas-
ingly overshadowed in practice
by actions of an entirely different
nature. Look at the encourage-
ment being given to NATO inter-
ference in Africa.

- Or note the renewed interest
in the U.S. military presence in

‘the Far East. Or see the building

of bridges to the Middle East

forces that are making deals be-
hind the back of the Arab peoples.
Finally, look at Peking’s pre-
paredness to fulfill the role of the
16th member of the military
North Atlantic Bloc in Asia.

As London’s pro-labor weekly
‘“‘New Statesman’’ correctly
noted, China’s foreign policy is
being made more according to
Dulles and not.according to Marx.

Mankind is currently living
through a very complicated and
sharp moment in its history. Pek-
ing’s activity attracts special at-
tention against this background.
Everywhere people are trying to
answer the question: on which
pan of the scales will the ‘‘new”’
Chinese diplomacy throw its
weight — that of peace or that of
another world war?

The Soviet people have not

_been indifferent to the visit of Hua

Kuo-Feng, either. If I remember
correctly, some organs of infor-
mation in Yugoslavia even re-
proached the Soviet press and
other media for emphasizing their
own opinions, while they should
have published the speeches
made during the Chinese leader’s
tour.

But that would have meant to

support the illusions Peking is de- :
liberately spreading to conceal its

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peace. Behind the facade of these
speeches is the growing militari-
zation of Chinese society, the
building of a united front with the
neo-colonialists and racists, the
desire to gain access to NATO’s

-arsenals, the fomenting of strife

everywhere and the laying of ter-
ritorial and other claims to
neighbors.

As was stressed in a published
document of the Communist

Party of the Soviet Union, “‘In .

pursuing a __ great-power
hegemonistic course, Peking is
openly banking on the fanning of
international tensions and using
every means to undermine the
positions of the socialist commun-
ity and of all revolutionary and
liberation forces of today.”’

‘*The energy with which China
pursues her policy of confronta-'
tion and the enthusiasm with
which our own cold war veterans
‘support it’, notes New States-
man, “‘must at least give cause for
a lot of thinking before we answer
her requests for arms.”’

The words hit-the point. There
is nothing more hypocritical and
dangerous than just this ‘“‘boom’’
of illusions which certain Western
circles — and not only Western —
indulge in over the ‘‘new pros-
pects for international relations”’
that are said to be opened by Pek-'

ing’s entry into the arena of active
diplomacy.

Well, the ‘‘prospects”’
there. Peking has repeatedly spo-
ken of them: ‘‘detente is a hoax,”
“disarmament is an_ illusion,”
“‘war is inevitable.”’ The visits of

Hua Kuo-Feng and his emis-—

are .

saries, with purchasing lists for
arms, must be an eye-opener tO |

the politicians. They should ans-

wer to themselves and to theif

peoples the question that arises in

the context of Peking’s overtures:

Are they prepared to forgo de-

tente and all that has been

achjeved and is planned on the
road of preventing a world nuc-

lear war, only to see the ultimate —

triumph of a “‘third rejoicing pal-
intending to ‘‘sit it out on 2

ie
mountain top’’?

It is possible that people with —
the frame of mind of Carter's
foreign policy advisor Brzezinskl, _
who saw in the ‘China card”’ the —
main chance for playing off anti-
Soviet politics, do not perceive —
any great risk in all this. But their _
misfortune is that they see only ©

the ‘‘card’? while, to use the

shrewd remark of the London

Observer, “‘by his trip Hua has _
revealed China’s ambition to act —

in world politics not in the capac-
ity ofacard, but ofa gambler. .

I might add: not only agambler, |

but one without rules.

Cork strikers win

By JIM SAVAGE
CORK, Ireland — Two of the
most bitter strikes in Cork for
years culminated in victory for

» the workers recently. The Dunlop

plant was closed for 11 weeks,

and Gouldings Chemicals Ltd.,

for.five.

these strikes caused resent-
ment because of management’s
threat to close both plants and go
elsewhere, as happened at the
Dutch Frenka plant in Limerick.
Dunlop stated that the work could
be done at Fort or in Birmin-
gham.

The dispute over a productivity
deal put 1,200 men out of work,
with a weekly loss of. wages of
on ,000 pounds (some $253,000).

It was agreed that a supplemen-
8 tary agreement for the payment of

, $5.50 be carried out in two ph-

© ases. It was also agreed that the
company install an accurate out-
put recording system. This was a

ae

Members of the African National Eaaees (South Africa) participated Sept. 3-4th in a 24-hour hunger strike
Toronto City Hall square to draw attention to the death sentence handed out by a South Heald court on

particularly controversial prop-
osal as workers felt it would be
similar to ‘“‘the spy in the cab’’.

The workers accepted the for-
mula worked out after marathon
sessions at the Labor Court. In
effect, 70% of the work force will
now be better off by up to $30.80 a
week. Another 20% are engineers

at
21-year old fighter Solomon Mahlangu.
in its material, the ANC described Mahlangu’ s “crime” as one of fighting against apartheid, a system
deciared to be a:crime against humanity. The Toronto hunger strike is part of a growing world-wide protest
_ against the death sentence which may be carried out at any moment.
The ANC (SA) asks supporters to write the Canadian government, the South African embassy and to South
African premier Vorster urging the death sentence be revoked and Mahlangu be treated as a prisoner of war.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 15, 1978—Page 8

two bitter strikes

and craft unions who have al —
ready worked out their own’ sepa

rate agreements. _

In return for the pay deal the
union (Irish Transport and Gen-
eral Workers Union) has agreed

on the introduction on the shop —
floor of what management de- —

scribed as ‘‘accurate reading syS-
tems’’. This means in effect, that

monitors to record individual

outputs are to be installed at the
plant.

In the Gouldings strike 220

workers were suspended. In mid —
August the scheduled Labor —

Court hearing into the dispute did

not take place. Officials of the |

Court met representatives of the
union, the ITGWU, and man-

agement, individually. Union ©
spokesmen indicated that they —

would not attend the hearing un- .

less the suspensions were lifted.

Management finally agreed to lift |

the suspensions thereby allowing
a return to work.

Despite the threat of clositres
the workers in these two plants

were determined, even if it meant —

unemployment, that they were —

not prepared to be intimidated,

and the result was overall victory, —
despite management’s gain in the —

productivity — read speedup.

one case of leverage for higher —