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He is now in South Viet Nam as full-time correspondent for Collegiate Press Service.) By HOWARD MOFFETT Collegiate Press service most a physical pressure. Skeptics might glance at a Vietnamese newspaper: the one I know best is printed in English, largely for an American readership-yet often China commands more front page space than any other nation, in- cluding the U.S. and Viet Nam. Shout at Each Other SAIGON-"I don't give a damn It seems China and America are about the Vietnamese - we're always shouting at each other, but fighting a war against China. No- neither wants to understand what body worried about the Alsatians the other is railing about. Amer- during the battle of Alsace-Lor- icans talk in somber tones of rais- raine." irig the price of aggression and A prominent Washington col- buttressing democracy and free- umnist made the comment during dom around the world. A shrill a recent visit to Viet Nam. To Chinese voice protests that the many educated Americans the great American reactionary, im- striking thing would be its crudity, perialist, bourgeois power is be- The striking thing here is that sieging the revolutionary champion many Vietnamese, deplbring the of the oppressed nations, China, sentiment and despising t h e and trying to stamp out a popular speaker, would nevertheless accept struggle against colonialism by her it as an accurate appraisal of what ally, the People's Democratic Re- is happening in and to their coun- public of Viet Nam. try. The issue between China and the However Americans view the war United States is confused because in Viet Nam, many Southeast we still tend to reduce power Asians see it primarily as a strug- struggles to their military dimen- gle between the U.S. and China sions; they are more dramatic for power, influence and the vindi- that way, and easier to under- cation of ideology. It is the tragic stand. Look at any American com- fate of the Vietnamese that they mercial newspaper and compare live in a rich and politically strate- the space given to military and gic border land between areas political developments in the Viet dominated by these two great Nam war. powers. Thus the conflict between China Ask any Vietnamese who the and the U.S. would be much clear- dominant power in Southeast Asia er if both sides were actually fight- is, and the answer would be "My," ing for a territorial conquest of the Americans. The other potential Viet Nam. But this is ruled out, so power in the area is just as ob- a typical line of reasoning goes, vious, China's shadow falls like by the fact that neither power a great weight in people living at could afford it-America because the bottom of the continent, al- of her scruples and China because Viet Nam Dual Significantly, it was Lenin wno Union as its main force. This drew out the relationship between resulted in the downfall of three capitalism and colonialism in his great imperialist powers and the treatise in Imperialism: "The Dy- awakening of two others. Only ing Stage of Capitalism. His aia- one great imperialist power was lysis and his alternative, socialism, left in the world, namely, the have profoundly influenced many United States, which had suf- intellectuals in former colonial fered no losses. However, Amer- areas, whether they are cominu- ica's domestic crisis was very nist or anti-communist, grave; she wanted to enslave This helps to explain both why the world (note: this sentence Americans see red when they near should be understood in terms socialism and why, conversely, so- of Lenin's theory of imperialism cialism has such an appeal in ism). By supplying Chiang Kai- countries from Burma to I.do- shek with arms she helped nesia, including Viet Nam. slaughter several millions of Second, the conflict shapes up Chinese ... . along racial lines. Most of the The racial theme has become bourgeois nations happen to rue fully developed only in the last predominantly white, while the ten years due to two factors: Chi- proletarian nations are colored, na's split with Russia, and the black, brown or yellow. White focus of world attention on the Americans have never really faced American civil rights movement. up to this, but Negro Americans Recently Mao's attacks on Amer- are becoming more and more ican racism have been second only aware of it. It is understandable to his attacks on American im- that Stokely Carmichael should perialism (see almost any issue of say, "To hell with the draft," al- the Peking Review in the last few though he may have confused two years). distinct but related issues. Hanoi is now making the point Racism a Factor with equal fervor: Nhan Dan, the Marx and Lenin, as white Euro- official daily newspaper, runs pic- peans who died before awareness tures of racial violence in the U.S. of the gulf between have and whenever it can monitor American have-not nations became universal, wire services' photo transmission were incapable of expanding their frequencies, analysis to include this factor. It Moral Overtones was Mao Tse-tung who first Thirdly, the conflict has a cul- sounded the theme. There were ra- tural aspect which has taken on cial undertones in his thinking as strong moral overtones. Most of early as 1949, as this exceprt from the bourgeois nations have de- s On People's Democratic Dictator- veloped a predominantly urban st ship shows: culture. .. 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To China, two worlds wars, th spread of nationalism and the ac celerating effects of Western tech nology and economic prosperit have had this effect: the clasi struggle of which Marx spoke is n longer an internal one between proletariat and bourgeoisie in ear of the capitalist, societies of tht West, but an international strug gle between 'revolutionary proleta rian nations and reactionary bour. geois nations. China is the proto type of the former and the U.S of the latter. Against this background, China'; posturing as the champion of th oppressed races and nations be comes highly intelligible. She take revolution seriously, and extends i to foreign policy. As the dominant revolutionary power, she is askini other poor nations to join her i what is essentially class warfar( against the wealthy nations of the West. For its part, the West, ant particularly the U.S., has sought ti counter these Chinese appeals b: lavish aid programs and pleas fo peace and cooperation rather thar struggle. 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