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...ministries and hold eleven seats on the ruling 21-man Politburo. The fastest-rising man in China is Army Chief of Staff Huang Yung-sheng (TIME, Aug. 24), who now ranks fifth on official lists. Some radicals, by contrast, have fallen from power, particularly those who gathered around Mao's wife Chiang Ching. Among those conspicuously absent from the National Day parade: Politburo Members Hsieh Fu-chih and Chen Pota, both powerful proponents of the Cultural Revolution. Army control, however, is far from complete, and the radicals have not given...
CHINA'S foreign relations are daily developing," said Defense Minister Lin Piao at this year's National Day celebrations. "We have friends all over the world." That was not an idle boast. Picking up the pieces of its shattered foreign relations in the wake of Mao Tse-tung's convulsive Cultural Revolution, Peking has mounted a skillful diplomatic offensive. Last week, after nearly two years of secret negotiations, Italy and China recognized each other and agreed to establish diplomatic relations. Only three weeks earlier, Peking had reached a similar agreement with Canada...
Italy was the seventh of NATO's 15 members to recognize Peking*, thus placing half of Washington's closest allies in direct opposition to U.S. policy on China. Belgium, another NATO member, is expected to recognize Mao's regime shortly, as are Austria and Chile. Altogether, 50 countries now recognize the Peking regime as China's legitimate government...
...officially maintains that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists remain the rightful rulers of mainland China, and for 21 years has refused to recognize Mao's regime. Aside from formally acknowledging reality, a change in U.S. policy would have a number of other advantages, as well as some disadvantages...
...would probably be forced to abandon an ally to which it is bound by tradition as well as treaty. Since the Nationalist government has existed on Taiwan as long as Mao's in Peking, a move that would estrange it from Washington and isolate it from other countries offers no more justice than current U.S. policy...