What Of The New China?

Chronicle (Levin), 16 June 1949, Page 5

What Of The New China?

LONDON, June 15. The Times' special correspondent in Hong Kong says that soon after the fall of Canton which it is not expected will be delayed for more than two months, the Comniunists are expected to

form a Coalition Government and wxii set about consolidating the existing regional Communist Government into a union of Chinese Socialist Repubiics. A eonference to establish such a GovI ernment was to have been held last autumn but the Communists ' military gains unexpectedly outran their politieal plans. The question of foreign reeognition of the new Government m ! China must necessarily wait until these arrangements are completed and fqj'mal steps taken to set up a new administration. Both the British and American Governments, says the correspondent, have matters which they are desirous of taking up with the Chinese Communists but so f-ftr- the only indication of the Communists' attitucle towards the reeognition of foreign Governments, has been a statement that it would be accorded only if the foreign Governments withdrew all armed forces from China and dropped their reeognition of the Nationalist Chinese administratjon. The Times' correspondent describes the statement by the American columnist, Mr. Brew Pearson, that Britain will recognise the Chinese Communist Government in a fortnight's time, as "baseless and mischievous." Some British merchants in China, he says, Would like to see the British Government try to take advantage of the Americans' Unpopularity with the Communists biit other British opinion, which takes a longer view, believes that Britain and the United States must try to display a united front in deaiing with the new situation in China.