PEOPLE'S DAILY: WORLD ADVANCES DESPITE SUPERPOWERS' CONTENTION

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-111-10-19-6
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• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 25, 2010
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: December 31, 1973
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T, 2 Jan 'd4 P E C P la E" S R E P U B I. I C O F C, H T N A
INTRRNAZ'SONAL AFFAIRS
Peking NC.NA in English POrF6 GMT 31 pec 73 B
[Text] Peking, pecember7i1, 7.97;3 (HSTNHUA)--The PEOPLE'S pATLY today carries a signed
article enti-fled ""The Warl.d Advances Amidst Great Disorder. ?' excerpts from the article
fallow:
19i"3, the outgoing year, is mar1ced by great disorder and an excellent situ.at,ion
throughout the world The peap:ie Nava made gigantic strides in the course of their
struggle, and the Features of the~rld have unde:rgane changes amidst tY~is disorder,
wh:ieh, is a manifestation of the further sh.arpena.ng of the basic contradictions in the
world. Countries want indei?endenre, naY,ians want liberation, and the people want
7?evc,lution--th:is has been f.h,e maLn trend amidst the disorder, Tk~.e warl.d situation as
a whole ma.Y be aptly depicted with a. Ch:i.nese saying "The wind sweeping through the
tower hera.l.ds a rising st:arm in the mountains," and that wind is becoming increasingly
severe now,
The international situation in the past .year shows that great disorder a.s a goad thing
for .the people of all cauntries? :it has thrown imperialism, modern revisivn:Lsm a.nd
al.l. reaction into confusion, and educated and tem~,ered the people and further awakened
them,
The people of all countries have seen ever more clearly that they should be daring
in struggle if they want independence, liberation and revolution, and that although
their road of struggle is tortuous v~.etory will be theirs so long as they persevere
in the struggle, Numerous facts prove that it is not imperialism and reaction, but
the people of all countries who. dare t;v ~ruggl.e that are really pawerfu7.. `t'he oppressed
naf,ians and people are'more firmly convinced than ever that they should oppose armed
counter-revolution with armed revolution.
The struggle of the Third World countries against the power pal:ities and hegemonism
of the two superpowers has been eonsk~icuausly strengthened in the past year.. The
people of the Third yffnrld have seen more and more clearly that aggression and expansion
by the t;wo superpowers are the main source of tkzreat to their independence and
svvere:i.gntjr. .goth the contention between the hegernonic II,:~, and USSR and their collusion
with each other are detrimental to the interests of the sraall and medium-sized
countries and are therefore inevi.tabl,y c?ppased by various countries? f+Iore and more
people i.n the Thi..rd World have come to see through the true eol.ors of S~"viet revisionist
social.-imperialism, State leaders and public opinion 'in some countries have pointed
out that the Soviet revisit:nists "are na d:ifferent Pram the tsars" and that they have
a17. along carried nut imper.i.alist; policies,
The Third World countries and people have continuously strengthened their unity in
the Course of struggle.. Leaders of U1 African coiantr'ies solemnly declared in Addis
Ababa last May that they are determined to strengthen ,err:l.idar.ity and support; each
other i.n the fight against common enemies.. Tn Algiers early last September, more
than `0'0 nonaligned countries vehemently denounced i.n ono vo:ica imperialism, colonialism,
neoca7_on.%a.lism, 2lonism, racism and hegemona.sm, During the anti-aggression struggle
waged by the Egyp'~?ian, Syrian and Palestinl.an people recent7.y, Arab countx~.les to+:,k
concerted action of solidarity and nearly ?C .Africa.n. countries severed diplomatic
relations with Tsrael. i.n i;r.,k~,n o{~ sul;~,c>rt; for the .drab ~:;oop7.e wh+, were fighting
heroically.
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I. 2 Jan 'j4 A 2 r'FtC
INTERNATIQNAL AF~AI~tS
The Third World countries are olasely united by oommvn interests. They have established
regional and specialised organizations for the purpose of enhancing cooperation and
they have taken Joint actions to safeguard their state sovereignty and natioa~al
interests. They have gained one success after another in these fields, f~aets Shaw
that it is not the Third World whiah fears the superpowers; on the contrary, it is
the superpowers which Fear the Third World.
The international situation in the past year is charactesi~ed notably by the further
awakening and growing in strength of the 'Third World ak~d 'its inex~easingly ir~pcrt~:nt
role in international affairs. The Third World has demonstrated a mighty force as
never before, and its voice can no longer be ignored. Ma~ox international issues
can hardly find solution without the participation and approval of the Third World,
and it is increasingly difficult for trio two superpowers to monopolize the United
Nations Organization,
Trio past year is replete with the rivalry for hegemony between the two superpowers:
Strategically, Europe has always boon the key point of this contention. The tension
and turmoils iri the Middle East, the conflicts in the ;Sau'th Asian subcontinent, the
turbulence in the Persian Gulf and the storms aver the Mediterranean Sea and 'the
Indian Ocean have all been the manifestation or result of the fierce contention
between the two superpowers, the U58R and U.S.A., whose: global contention for hegemony
is the root ce.use of world intranquillity.
As Lenin pointed out, "An essential feature of imperialism .is the rivalry between
several great powers in the striving for hegemony and their effort to weaken the
adversary and undermine his hegemony." In the past year, overt and covert struggles
between the Soviet Union and the United States have developed all over the world
and they involved various domains. Their Melds of contention vary from coni'erenae
table to market and battlefield, from land to see. and outer space: In th~.s all~-
round strife for hegemony, Soviet revisionist social-imperialism 'shows a greater
momentum and extended its reach farther and wider than the tJ.S. i+ta,lcir~ a feint to
the past while attacking in the west, it concentrates the greatest attenti~in on Liirape.
While increasing Sts troops incessantly to step up its threat to West Europe, Soviet
revisionism has been zealous in propagating "detente" in an attempt to lull the
vigilanve of the West European countries and elbow out the United Jtates. It has
also made reckless inxoads in other parts. aP the world. In a word, it has committed
penetration wherever them is a vhanoe. In some countries or regions, it arrived at
the hack of the United States; in some others, it took the United Statesg place
as soon as the latter left; and in still some other areas which the United States
had not bean able to lay hands on, Soviet revisionist social-imperialism took the
advantage tp~ step in.
Hawev~r, wi~h.a long front acid inadequate strength, Soviet revisionism is b~s~et with
many difficulties though its ambitions are great enough. Sa it often pulls in its
horns when there is a counterattack; Soviet revisionism, which intends to take trio
place of the other superpower in dominating the world, has tried Sts best to doves
this up, ddnying that the two superpowers are locked in Contention. Mare candid
in this xegard are some leading American politicians who have openly admitted that
"the Soviet Union and the United States impinge on each other, as superpowers, in
many parts of the world" and that they are "political and military competitors"
Ever fiercer rivalry between the two superpowers--this aannvt be altered by anybody.
Tv scramble far spheres of influence, collusion between thel two hegemonic g0wexs can
only be temporary and relative and serves only the purposb of intensified contention
whip their rivalry is long and absolute.
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I. 2 Jan 74 A 3 PRC
II~1'EBNATIONAL AFFAIRS
The two superpowers are best faith difficulties and ridden with latent crises at hcane
and abroad, A5 the verse goes, "Flowers Fall off, do what one may." They are in a
sorry plight indeed,
U. S, imperialism is finding the going tougher and tougher from year to year. Tt has
been unable to surmount difficulties at home, and all its endeavors abroad have failed
to turn the tide which shows all the characteristics of a decline. Tt has been com-
pelled to withdraw its farces frqun South Vietnam but continues to carry the two
heavy burdens--the Nguyen Van Thieu clique and the Lon Nat clique--on its back, It
has designated this year as a "Year of Europe" and put Earth a "New Atlantic Charter,"
only to admit disappointedly that these plans are not getting; on smoothly. Moreover,
its support to Israel's military adventure has run up against the opposition of many
countries.
Soviet revisionism is in a worse plight. ,Its economic situation this year is not
much better than 'before. The backwardness of its agriculture still persists, Many
industrial projects have been left unfti3:f il~.ed, and this has led to curtailed pro-
duction plans Tor 1974. Its huge trade deficit has forced the selling of its gold
reserve to make up for the loss, Although the Soviet revisionist ruling clique has
resorted to all kinds oT high-handed policies in dealing with the workers, peasants,
intellectuals and minority people who have shown strong resentment, and even moved out
troops to suppress the rebellious masses, resistance on the part of the Soviet people
is unabated,
The more vigorously Soviet revisionist social-imperialism engages itselT in expansion,
the harder it finds the going. To cope with the difficulty, chieftains of Soviet
revisionism, who style their country a "developed socialist country," have been running
hither and thither in the outgoing year begging for loans from western countries,
They are satirically described in the Western press as f1dollar diplomat" and "economic
mendicant dressed up as a military giant." Soviet revisionism has reached out every-
where, and everywhere it has run into snags. It has taken pains to work for the
success of the "European security conference" in order to penetrate into Western
Europe, but the conference ha$ failed to achieve any substantial result. The Frenekz
representative mocked at the conference by calling it "a dial ague of the deaf,"
Soviet revisionism has played marry cards at meetings on force reduction in Central
Europe in an attempt to beat its opponents, but it has gained no advantage frt~n this
except that it has put other countries on alert, Its effort to disintegrate Western
Europe has the net result of strengthening the trend toward union among the West
European countries. It has energetically peddled the so-called "collective security
system in Asia," but received only cold response from other countries. It has
attempted to compel Japan to give up her sovereignty over the four nar?thern islands,
but both the ruling and opposition parties in Japan firmly refuse to give in.
Its accelerated transport of manpower to Israel has aroused growing indignation among
the Arab countries. Soviet revisionism further showed up its ugly features in the
recent Middle East war by betraying the interests of the Arab and Palestinian people
and contending for spheres of influence with the other superpower, This also revealed
fully its nature of being ferocious in appearance but weak inwardly. A Latin
American paper wrote; If the image of Washington is now well known to a11, "then it
is the Soviet Union that is even mare discredited in the world,"
The world is entering 1974. "In man's world seas change into mulberry fields."
In the coming year the wcu?1d will certainly c?ntinue to undergo great turbulence, great
division and, great realignment. It will still be in great disorder and not in peace,
Amidst dais turbulence wi11 be a growing trend in revolution.
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I. 2 Jan "~.~ A .4 e? PRC
INPERRATIONAL AFFATR$
We can foretell with. full confidende that the people of the world wi11 in the course
of struggle further temper themselves, raise tk~eir polltidal consciousness, strengthen
their forces and propel the wheels of history to roll onwards,
PE~IAQ STEEL W~KER $EATDS l~W YEAR ?S GRR~TINC~S gO SOVIE'P PSOPLE
Peking in Russian to the USSR lBCC t3MT 3l Y7ed 73 B
[idew Year?s greetings to the Scsviet people from.(Rai Shu-moo), veteran steelworker:of~
the Peking steel rill-recorded in t~inese fading inter F3ussian translation]
(8xeerpts] Qn the eve of the now year, allow me, on behalf of the entire collective
of the Peking steel mill, to express warm holiday greetings to the working ,class and
all pea~ple of the Soviet Union.
I would like to dwell on the .friendship of the Chinese and Soviet peoples. In August
1960 I visited the Soviet Union as a member of a Chinese workers tourist group, At
that time, the Khrushchev clique, trampling upon the elementary nor~s of international
rela~3?ns; recalled in the period of l month all of the 1,390 Soviet specialists
working in China, tore up 343 eontradts and supplementary acts of these cantraets,
ahd Qaincelled X57 items of sc9.entifid and teehnidal caopsrat~Lan. All this caused
enormcius damage to the cause of our socialist danstruction.
Yet, we profoundly feel the great friendship caf ordinary Scnviet people for the Chinese
people, We stayed at that time at the pelting Hotel in Moscow. The service staff of
the hc-tel and drivers were very warm in their relations with us. On meeting., we would
firmly shape hands and warualy great each other, The cooks prepared tasty Chinese
dishes especially far us, In Moscow wa visited the Moscow automobile plant Imeni
I.ikhachev where we were warmly welcomed by the workers and employees. They acquainted
us with their production. ~leing a steelworker, I was particularly interested in the
open hearth furnaces.,, At .parting, the workers bid us a warm farewell. The warm,
fr3.endly feeling of the Soviet workers for the Chinese workers left a profound im_
pressian with us. Taking this opportunity, I would like to express a cordial
greeting over the radio to the entire collective of the automobile plant Imeni Likhacheva
presently, despite everything, the renegade Brezhnev clique has unfolded a rabid
anti-Chinese campaign which has resulted in a considerable decrease in the number of
contacts between the peoples of China and the Soviet Union, But the profound friend-
ship between the Chinese and Soviet peoples is based on Marxism-Leninism and
proletarian internationalism and will `live forever in our hurts, It cannot be
undermined., nrst by Srezhnev or any others of his ilk.
The anti-Chinese policy of the Brezhnev clique finds na suppcsrt among the broad masses
of Soviet people, Cra the contrary, this policy only More clearly exposes the
Brezhnev c~.ique?s genuine feature as a traitor to Lenin, As the great leader of the
Chinese people Chairman Mao Tsetung wide The Soviet Union is the first socialist
.state and the CP$U is the party established by Lenin, Despite the fact that the party
and state leadership in the Soviet Union has been usurped, by revisionists, I nonethe-,
lass suggest to my comrades that they firmly believe that the broad masses of people,
and the broad masses of communists and cadres in the Soviet Union, .are worthy people
and want revolution and -that the supremady of the rsvisianists there will be shortlived,
Tn conclusion, I would ox~ee against like to warmly greet the Soviet peesple on the
occasion of the new year,, I wish you health and new sueeesees in the struggle in
the defense of Marxi~nt-ieatnism.
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