China's Policies Threaten Existence of Workers' States

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Teng Hsiao-p'ing, deputy premier of China (left) and Japan Foreign Minister Sunao Sonada at a Peking dinner cementing the trade pact Jalloud in his speech casti- get some ideas on repression gated the Chinese government from the Shah of Iran when he for its support for the traitor reaches that part of his tour so Sadat. They had supported his that he can bring the Chilean Relations with Vietnam con- when he visits Peking in «Your pragmatic politics make you allies of Pinochet, Imperial Army noted criminals like Mobutu and bloody kings and of US bosses and presidents of multinational companies"

Thus reads the letter sent to Peking by the Workers Party of Albania on 29 July after the ending of all aid to Albania from the People's Republic.

The rotteness of the pro-imperialist policies of the Meu Hua clique has stung even China's once most loyal ally into attack.

The present visit to Romania is only one-highly publicisedpart of China's foreign policy.

It is clearly an act in Peking's manoeuvres against the USSR.

And the Soviet leadership has made menacing noises to Ceausescu to discourage too friendiy a welcome of future relations.

Romania is the only Warsaw Pact country which maintained state and Party relations with China after the Sino-Soviet split in 1963.

Although it is only three months since Ceausescu's visit to Peking where a ten year cooperation agreement was signed, no doubt Hua has decided to take advantage of the 10th anniversary of the Czechoslovakia invasion which China condemned and Romania did not play a part in, to cement relations.

Romania has refused to take part in the feud between the two "socialist" countries and has played down the "antihegemony" parts of Hua's speeches.

The talks between the two leaders will apparently deal with the intensification of trade and economic relations and possibly the implementation of the consular agreement by opening consulates in Shanghai and possibly Constanca on the Black Sea.

But this latter might be too close for Soviet comfort with its base at Sebastopol. It is to be remembered that the Soviet Union is still Romania's first partner economically and militarily their main ally.

This Chinese turn to Ro. mania and Yugoslavia is linked up with the loss of Albania as the Chinese supporter in the area.

difficulty Relations now are very bitter with Albania claiming that the Chinese specialists had "burnt or taken away all the technical documents" when aid was stopped on 7 July.

China met one-third of Albania's needs commercially and, clearly this very backward economy will have great difficulty now in developing.

The rupture is very like that when the Soviet technicians walked out of China with all the factory blueprints.

Chairman Hua has shown himself to be a very energetic foreign affairs statesman.

Only a few days before his flight so far west, he signed a peace and friendship agreement with Japan on 12 August.

This treaty was hailed with delight by the Japanese industrialists, hungry for new markets and a new source of cheap raw materials.

The Chinese bureaucracy was glad to open its resources and people to direct imperialist exploitation.

It also seemed to have won the argument on Clause 2 which was an attack on the USSR which stated jat "neither seek hegemony ir the Asia-Pacific Region and (‹ :h) is opposed to efforts of other countries to establish such hegemony"

' Discussions

Japan finally agreed to the inclusion of this section because of its row over the ownership of the Kuriks and of fishing areas, recently exacerbated with the Other foreign affairs discussions by China recently have involved Libya, the continuing row with Vietnam, Chile and Laos.

Commander Jalloud, chief of the Libyan government, agreed to establish diplomatic relations at ambassador level on his 9 August visit to Peking.

Open door The interesting thing about this decision is that Libya still has diplomatic relations with Taiwan, and the usual clause about recognising Peking as the only legal government of the Chinese people was left out.

This could of course open the door to a similar agreement with the US.

The other point is that visit to Jerusalem!

tinna to dotorinrato Hánni has October. unue begun raising now its disgust at the invitation of Kissinger and Nixon to Peking in 1972 at the height of the B52 bombings.

It also claims that Peking tried to dissaade them from their 1975 offensive.

Accusing China Its neighbour, Laos, has also waded in and is accusing China of fomenting strife among their national minormies, ty - lie wicu lunaiine on tho Milan people in the north east.

Finally, perhaps Hua can foreign minister up to date TUsUNU..

Anti-working class

Perhaps the Chilean foreign minister will include Romania on his tour-the only other workers' state besides China which has not broken off diplomatic relations with the military junta since the 1973 coup.

The • anti-working class policies being pursued by the Chinese bureaucracy endanger the very existence of the workers states and in particular the gains of the 1948 overthrow of the Chiang Kai-shek regime.

Trotskyists stand for the unconditional defence of the degenerated workers' states and in particular their nationalised property relations.

But the only way these can be defended is through the building of Trotskyist revolutionary parties to carry through a political revolution in China, the USSR and the other degenerated workers' states to remove the parasitic bureaucratic ruling clique and return political control to the hands of the working class.

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BOB SUTCLIFFE, in this article, shows how the current positions on Cuba held by leading USF! member Joseph Hansen restaté the thoroughly revisionist positions on the basis of which the 1963 "reunification" of the American SWP with the International Secretariat of the Fourth International took place. .

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