China and the USSR
Sir: Professor John Erickson asks (9 September) if 'the United States' and its allies 'will actually conspire to turn (Communist) China into a modernised military power'. Quite probably. The Soviet Union itself would never have become a modernised military power without the technological aid provided by certain segments of western finance-capitalism, as Professor Antony Sutton and other writers have now conclusively demonstrated. The lure of docile, regimented, cheap-labour for manufacturing industries is as strong upon Warburg-style finance as it ever was with Japan or Hong Kong, and the naive hope of degenerate Toryism that slant-eyed yellow men will rush like 600 million good little Gurkhas to pull NATO's chestnuts out of the Russian fire still exerts its subconscious influence upon Bennett-style politicians.
There is every reason to set Moscow and Peking at each other's throats. There is no reason to create yet another non-western major power, Jenghiz Khan with orbital H-weapons, with no guarantee that, after exterminating the free Chinese in Taiwan and dominating South-east Asia, it would not re-unite with the USSR in a communist bid for global domination — of unprecedented geopolitical possibilities and unbelievably horrible totalitarianism.
Professor F. A. Hayek, noting the exemplary contrast between Maoist socialism and Nationalist enterprise, net long ago lectured the so-called 'free world' on its 'unbelievable obsequiousness towards the Communist-occupied Chinese mainland' — where, incidentally, 'thousands of criminals and "counter-revolutionaries" were shot' under the oriental Kaltenbrunner, 'Chairman' Hua, last year (Daily Telegraph, 22 February 1978). It is just disgusting to see that while a campaign is being mounted against the Moscow Olympics because 'thousands arc precluded from taking part because of their alleged political unreliability' (Free Nation, 14 September 1978), the latest armaments and capitalist credits are shortly to be lavished upon an even more internally diabolical, and externally nearly as aggressive, regime, which the McWhirters' Guinness Book of Records cites as the most murderous in modern history. Sixty million dead.
Hendrik Pienaar 5, Chung Hsiao East Road, Taipeh, Taiwan
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