Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 12:37:50 -0500 (EST)
From: SHAWGI TELL <v600a8e6-AT-ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu>
Subject: The Two-China Policy



     Taiwan or Formosa is a large island off the coast of China, in
the China Sea, to which the defeated armies of Chiang Kai Shek fled
in 1949. Chiang Kai Shek's island "Republic of China" remained the
"representative" of China in the United Nations for more than two
decades. It even occupied a permanent seat on the Security Council.
It was given this role by the need of U.S. imperialism to interfere
with the rise of a strong central state in China, a state which
could withstand foreign interference and subversion, and safeguard
its own interests. For over a hundred and fifty years China had
been forcibly divided by the colonialists and imperialists, and its
people humiliated and ignominiously reduced to coolies, a source of
cheap labour worldwide. U.S. imperialism was forced to abandon its
policy by 1979 when it finally acknowledged the People's Republic
of China as the sole state of the whole of China.
     U.S. imperialism had calculated that China's "market
socialism" and the foreign finance capital pouring into the PRC
would subvert the Chinese state, creating a weakened China, once
again subservient to European and North American interests. The
U.S. imperialists were confident and boasting that the occupation
of Tien An Men square in April-June of 1989 would force the state
of the PRC to submit to foreign subversion. This, they hoped, would
be the prelude to the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe.
     To their consternation the PRC state did not collapse, but
their disappointment was soon assuaged with the disintegration of
the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. However, for U.S. imperialism
and others, this was not enough. They calculated that the end of
the cold war meant China was certainly within their grasp. More
than ever they wanted to weaken the central state of the PRC. Using
the hypocrisy of bringing "Western democracy" and "human rights" to
China they have created one diversion after another. All have
failed to achieve their goal of subverting the Chinese state. It
seems almost in exasperation that the U.S. imperialists and others
have dredged up, once again, a "Two-China" policy. They cannot,
nonetheless, go back to the fifties and declare Taiwan as the "sole
representative" of China. That would be laughable. The recognition
of Taiwan as not being part of China is to grossly interfere in
China's affairs in order to destabilise the PRC state.
     It is our opinion that the PRC will not submit to this
subversion of its state either through the hoax of "Western"
democracy and human rights or through this bankrupt "two-China
policy" or "one China-one Taiwan policy." The people of the
entirety of China can have their dignity, their prosperity, peace
and future only as an independent people free from outside
interference, settling their own affairs by themselves. We are
convinced they will not permit the state of the PRC to be subverted
in the interests of imperialism and internal reaction. On the
contrary, they will take the deep-going revolutionary reforms
necessary in order to pursue their independent path.


Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
V600A8E6-AT-UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU



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