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Pathologically Worried. What does Mao's latest purge signify? Has Red China finally been driven mad by the mounting U.S. military pressure in Viet Nam? Will a human wave of Chinese soldiers suddenly cascade into Southeast Asia as it did into Korea 16 years ago? Or does the uproar reflect nothing more than an internal struggle for party leadership? No one can be certain. Is the work of the Red Guards just a buildup to another announcement of a disastrous harvest? Elements of all these speculations seemed to be at work in Peking's purge...
...Japanese, who only 30 years ago underwent Asia's most violent experience in totalitarian insanity, Peking's ravings raise uncomfortable memories of the hijoji (extraordinary times) used by Tojo as an excuse to lead Japan into war against the West. Indians-who have had reason to fear Red Chinese aggression ever since the Himalayan campaign of 1962-are more than usually worried. Even North Korea, to whose "rescue" Red China came in 1950, has backed away from Peking in recent weeks, quite possibly in fear of involvement in some suicidal Red Chinese military adventure...
...China is to achieve its objectives, it must achieve victory in Viet Nam. Already Peking has suffered considerably by its failure to produce victory in Southeast Asia: North Korea and the once-pro-Peking Japanese Communist Party declared themselves "neutral"' in the Red ideological war last month; Indonesia has shattered the Peking-Djakarta axis; Chinese inroads in Africa and Latin America have been marred by the clumsiest diplomacy of modern times. In Asia today, Peking can count on the support of only a few Communist parties, such as those of Ceylon, Burma and New Zealand...
...chance of military victory. The Russians, while enjoying the American discomfiture, certainly do not want the war to escalate to the point where they will be drawn into it any further. And the Chinese are involved in such a fanatical internal purge that they have sent shivers throughout Asia and further widened the Sino-Soviet rift...
...campus, most protest groups have been less noisy than they were last spring, and vacations are not entirely responsible. "This is not the wild and woolly teach-in atmosphere of last year," said French-born Southeast Asia Expert Bernard Fall, a levelheaded critic of Administration policy, after a discussion on Viet Nam at the University of Illinois last week. "There is far less 'Let's clean up the Chinese' on one hand and 'Let's get the hell out' on the other...