Chile balcher to visit Peking
Socialist Press1978 1978-10-18Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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The reactionary basis of the foreign policy of China's Stalinist rulers has for some time been the search for allies-any allies-against the Soviet Union.
This unprincipled quest has| brought them into friendly relations with all manner of reactionaries-from military dictators in Pakistan or Indonesia to Tories in Britain and a Francoist King in Madrid.
In the last few days the Chinese leaders have shown signs of fishing for new, up to now reviled, potential allies against Moscow and of cementing one of its most criminal old alliances.
The new possible friends are,' not surprisingly, the so-called Eurocommunists.
Peking's public attitude towards them has changed from bitter (and hypocritical) scorn of their "revisionism" , to tenta* tive flattery of the "certain independence" which they were showing towards Moscow's "hegemonism"