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After taking more than a month to answer Nehru's last note on the border dispute, China's Premier Chou En-lai last week called for a meeting in just eight days because of "our unshirkable responsibility not only to our two peoples, but also to world peace...
...Chou's answer amounts to a total rejection of all of Nehru's proposals, except the one about not sending out border patrols. Though headlines played up Chou's willingness to negotiate, the fine print showed that he was in no real bargaining mood...
Then the love affair palled. Red China decided that the Southeast Asian governments were more important than the Overseas Chinese and. wooing the Afro-Asian nations at Bandung. China's Premier Chou En-lai urged that Chinese abroad "be loyal to the countries they live in." The disenchantment was mutual. Hua-chiao students returned from China complaining of hardships under the Reds. The relatives back home saw little of the money that had been sent them, and sneaked out bitter reports about the communes...
Vote of Confidence. Just three weeks ago, Prime Minister Nehru stunningly and surprisingly emerged from the cocoon of indecision. With brusque firmness, he sent a note to Peking rejecting Premier Chou En-lai's proposal that both the Indian and Chinese border forces withdraw 12½ miles from their present positions. Nehru's counterproposals were for a "no man's land" in the disputed areas, which would result in getting almost all Chinese troops out of Indian territory. Nehru added sharply that "the cause of the recent troubles is action taken from your side of the border...
Today, the 2,500,000 Chinese who make up 3% of Indonesia's population are a prosperous minority, irksome to Indonesia's nationalists and as politically aloof as ever. In the euphoric aftermath of the 1955 Bandung Conference, Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai negotiated with Indonesia a curious treaty giving the Chinese settlers the option of either citizenship; but, in fact, nearly 75% retain Red China passports. Last year President Sukarno closed down Nationalist Chinese schools and shops-to Peking's delight. But last May, Sukarno made it plain that all Chinese were eventually...