Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda said Japan will not assist Red China in its military modernization program.
The Soviet Union is busy developing its railway network near the border with Red China. Tass said a 100-km (63-mile) section linked to the new trans-Siberian (Lake Baikal-River Amur) rail road has been inaugurated in the Aogouna valley near the Amur River.
Col. Fan Yuan-yen, the MIG pilot who flew to freedom in Taiwan in 1977, said life in the Republic of China is incomparably good compared with that on the mainland of China.
OCTOBER 17 - A highly educated Chinese who recently emigrated legally from Red China to Hong Kong believes that when Mao Tse-tung comes under attack on the Chinese mainland, his "thought" will collapse like the bursting of a dam. Miriam and Ivan D. London, researchers on Chinese Communist affairs, interviewed the anonymous Chinese.
The Soviet Union accused Peiping of bowing before the god of war and said the West is feeding the Red Chinese dragon to counterbalance the Soviet Union.
A leading Indonesian army general has called on the government to postpone "normalization of relations" with Red China. Maj.-Gen. Sooegandi said "We must consider national and regional stability. I think we have not prepared ourselves fully."
OCTOBER 18 - Chinese Communist troops firing automatic weapons and supported by warplanes flying overhead invaded North Vietnam and took over a village for seven hours, the Baltimore Sun reported.
The first impression imparted by Red China to a foreign visitor is its state of backwardness, according to Vermont Royster writing in the Wall Street Journal.
Several articles urging that rioting in Peiping's Tienanmen Square April 5, 1976, should be recognized as a major revolutionary event have appeared in the Chinese Communist press following the removal of Wu Teh as "mayor" of the city.
OCTOBER 19 - A former official of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation received a two-year suspended sentence after conviction on a charge of selling a research paper to Red China. Judge Shigeru Morioke of the Tokyo District Court passed sentence on Yukio Shimano, 45, former chief clerk of the corporation's re search center in Tokyo.
Prime Minister Morarji Desai said India will not fully normalize relations with Red China until the border dispute is settled. Desai said his government is committed to regaining Indian territory annexed by the Red Chinese in the 1962 war.
OCTOBER 20 - Red China installed long-range artillery along its tense border with Vietnam and deployed more troops to support violations of Vietnamese territory, Radio Hanoi claimed.
OCTOBER 21 - There is no softening of stance in the Communist Chinese regime on the Taiwan issue, a China expert who recently visited the mainland said in Taipei. U.S. Georgia State Representative Bob Holmes denied recent reports that Peiping is willing to make concessions on the status of Taiwan in exchange for "normalization" with Washington.
OCTOBER 22 - Teng Hsiao-ping flew into Tokyo amid tight security for an eight-day visit with Japanese political and business leaders.
West German Economics Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff is sounding a warning against "euphoria" and overly high expectations in developing trade with Red China.
OCTOBER 23 - On a recent visit to Red China, Newsweek correspondent Fred Coleman found that people are ignorant about the outside world. He was asked by a young Chinese worker how the United States rations food. When told that the U.S. does not ration food, the Chinese replied, "I don't believe you."
Moscow may hit the Chinese Communists across the border, said William Hyland, a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies.
U.S. Representative John Ashbrook has criticized the Carter administration for offering to sell a communications satellite to Red China. "This is an extremely shortsighted policy," said the Republican Congressman from Ohio. He said that by selling a communications satellite to Red China, the U.S. is permitting its technology to be used to build up the industrial and military might of its enemies.
Life is frustrating for foreigners on the Communist-held mainland of China because of the secrecy imposed by the Peiping regime and the bureaucracy, according to Howard Simons, managing editor of the Washington Post. Simons, who visited the mainland for three weeks this fall, quoted a Western observer as saying "there are nine tiers of government."
Red China's former head of state, Liu Shao-chi, the most prominent victim of the "cultural revolution" of the late 1 960s, is still alive, but is most unlikely to reappear in public, according to authoritative sources in Peiping.
The current purge of provincial leaders in Red China has resulted in the removal of Honan's Liu Chien-hsun, replaced by "railway minister" Tuan Chun-i. This is the fourth provincial level dismissal in less than a month.
Japan and Red China concluded a "peace and friendship treaty." Teng Hsiao-ping and Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda witnessed the exchange of documents by Foreign Minister Sunao Sonoda of Japan and Huang Hua of Red China.
OCTOBER 24 - Vietnam accused Red China of violating its airspace 40 kilometers from the border and said Red Chinese soldiers continued to invade Vietnamese border towns.
The Hong Kong government has requested British navy and army forces on the border and outlying islands to help curb the expanding inflow of refugees escaping from mainland China, according to police sources.
An American expert on Asian affairs expressed doubt that the mutual security pact between the Republic of China and the U.S. will ever be abrogated. Addressing the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club, Dr. Harold Hinton of George Washington University in Washington, D.C. said it is hard to predict when "normalization of relations" will be completed.
Japan will ask Red China to return the corpses of nearly a quarter-million Japanese soldiers killed in Northeastern China during the World War II, government sources said in Tokyo.
Three Red Chinese factory managers gave a banquet almost every day last year while new equipment for the plant was left in the open to rot. They also bartered away raw materials, according to Nanchang radio in Kiangsi province.
OCTOBER 25 - There are many forces within the Chinese Communist party who are opposed to Teng Hsiao-ping and his "modernization program," Peiping reports said.
Teng Hsiao-ping launched a strong attack against the Soviet Union at a news conference in Tokyo.
Nepotism is rampant in Peiping's selection of students for advanced training abroad, according to a wall poster which appeared on the campus of Peiping University. Signed by "A Group of Protesting Teachers and Students," the poster charged that children of influential families were being selected for overseas training instead of those who really deserve the privilege.
U.S. State Department spokesman Hodding Carter III denied that the United States has accepted Peiping's' three conditions for the "normalization of relations."
Two overseas Chinese visitors were shocked to find their relatives on the Chinese mainland shriveled, their faces somber and their hair prematurely gray. Like most other Chinese on the mainland, their relatives seldom smile and their faces are expressionless. Gone are the bright smiles of the traditional Chinese - the free and easy gaiety and the friendliness. The two almost never saw Chinese exchanging greetings on the street or stopping for a lighthearted chat or gossip. In short, a society has lost its old charm and graciousness.
Red China indirectly criticized Mao Tse-tung's "great proletarian cultural revolution" - through the voice of a former Red Guard, Chao Ta-chung, 33, who was elected to the presidium of the 10th National Conference of the Chinese Communist Youth League.
OCTOBER 26 - An American editor who visited the Chinese mainland said that the struggle between leading circles and the remnants of the "gang of four" is not yet over. He said the enemies of Teng Hsiao-ping are waiting for an opportunity to come back. Newsday's associate editor, William Sexton, wrote that the "lingering aftereffect of the gang of four" still prevails throughout the land.
There has been no formal negotiation on "normalization of relations" between Washington and Peiping, a Department of State spokesman said. John Cannon, public affairs adviser at the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, denied reports that formal negotiation were under way.
Hua Kuo-feng's leadership has purged more than one-fourth of the top leaders in Red China's 29 provinces and municipalities as well as 80 per cent of high ranking regional officials, Japan's Kyodo news service reported.
OCTOBER 27 - Moscow is warning against sales of arms to the Chinese Communists, the Washington Post reported, while a U.S. government spokesman said he believes the French defense ministry has denied a reported $350 million sale of antitank and antiaircraft missiles to Peiping.
Presidential press secretary Jody Powell said there are too many differences of opinion regarding "normalization of relations" between Washington and Peiping. He told a press briefing that is why Washington and Peiping have yet to "normalize relations."
Dr. James Reardon-Anderson, assistant professor of Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University, said that in the present and immediate future, the benefits of "normalization of relations" between Washington and Peiping are few and difficult to prove. The United States cannot cite any bonanza which is likely to follow "normalization." Neither can the Peiping regime, he said, adding, "The political risks of trying to cut the 'Taiwan knot' are higher than either President Carter or Hua Kuo-feng cares to take on."
An overwhelming majority of American news papers maintain that the United States should take into consideration the interest of the Re public of China while pursuing its policy of seeking "normalization" of relations with Communist China. After studying about 180 newspapers in more than 100 cities of the United States, Free Man, a Chinese-language periodical published in New York, said that about 70 percent of the papers were of the view that the United States should take great care in executing its China policy so as not to sacrifice the interest of the Republic of China.
OCTOBER 29 - Vietnam warned that tension at the Sino-Vietnamese border was increasing with the Chinese Communists massing troops, preparing artillery sites and machine gun emplacements, building radar stations and sending soldiers into Vietnamese territory to loot and attack people.
Chairman Matsumoto of Japan's Communist party Diet steering committee charged that Teng Hsiao-ping had attempted to intervene in Japan's internal politics during his visit.
The "little red book" of Mao Tse-tung's quotations has come under fire in Red China's press for the first time. It may be withdrawn from sale.
OCTOBER 30 - War between Moscow and Peiping is a possibility, according to the U.S. News-World Report. The magazine quotes a "top U.S. intelligence official" as predicting war between Moscow and Peiping following a Vietnamese attack on Cambodia.
State Department spokesman Hodding Carter denied there have been "secret talks" in Peiping on "normalization of relations" with the Chinese Communists. "I am not aware of any secret talks," Carter said when asked to confirm a press report that Leonard Woodcock, U.S. chief of the liaison office in Peiping, is under White House directives to hold secret negotiations.
The theory of "innate genius" was blasted by Red China in an effort to reduce Mao Tse-tung to size. People's Daily described the theory as "one of the most serious ideological obstacles" to Red China's effort for modernization.
Demonization is going on in full swing on the Communist-held Chinese mainland as the Communist party press has started attacking "quotations from Mao Tse-tung," the Baltimore Sun reported.
Senator Bob Dole (R-Kan.) expects President Carter to consult fully with the Congress on any action he may plan that would affect the ROC U.S. Mutual Security Treaty. "I feel certain the President will fully honor the Congressional mandate for consultations on the China issue, which was part of the Security Assistance Bill he signed into law on September 26," Senator Dole said.
Mainland China is suffering the third worst drought in 300 years. It reduced a major lake to knee-depth and will make it impossible for many peasants to plant rice next spring, Peiping said.
Twenty-one family members of Red Chinese leaders, including Mao Tse-tung's daughter-in-law and Teng Hsiao-ping's children, have been rehabilitated, a Hong Kong Communist newspaper reported.
OCTOBER 31 - The State Department denied a published report that the United States and Red China have agreed on the sale and orbiting of a U.S.-made civilian satellite to improve Red China's internal communications system.
Presidential press secretary Jody Powell said there is no set timetable for "normalization of relations" between Washington and Peiping. Nor is there any set formula, Powell said, adding that there have been no formal negotiations between Washington and Peiping on "normalization." ''There have been conversations," he admitted, but said he did not consider them to be part of a formal negotiating process.
The Soviet press warned that increased Japanese trade could build a stronger Red China which would turn against Japan.
A veteran American diplomat s3id the United States should maintain an "aloof posture" toward Red China regarding "normalization of relations." William J. Porter, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, pointed out that human rights are denied to the people on the mainland. He said recognition of the regime would contradict the human rights diplomacy of President Carter.
NOVEMBER 1 - Many experts believe that the forced tempo of Teng Hsiao-ping's campaigns of change faces grave setbacks in the foreseeable future, said Harry Hamm, a Communist affairs specialist of the German daily, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Peiping has admitted that over 100 million people on the mainland are "class enemies" and likely to give the regime trouble. The admission was made by Yeh Chien-ying, chairman of the "national people's congress." A copy of his speech reached Taipei.
NOVEMBER 2 - Vietnam accused Red China of triggering a border firelight and pouring troops and weapons into Cambodia and Red China-Vietnam frontier areas. Radio Hanoi said many Vietnamese border militiamen were killed and wounded in fighting with Chinese Communist intruders.
Red China is building underground cities in Peiping, Communist newspapers in Hong Kong reported. They include air raid shelters, hotels, restaurants and garages.
NOVEMBER 3 - Vietnam said Red China has 100,000 troops in Cambodia and is continuing to pour men and weapons into the country to fight Vietnam.
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance denied that the United States has accepted Peiping's three conditions for "normalization of relations." Vance also denied that Washington is conducting secret negotiations with Peiping on "normalization."
Some 60 mainlanders, reportedly including several key followers of the "gang of four," fled to Hong Kong on a fishing junk, according to a Hong Kong report.
U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance gave the green light to members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization who have been negotiating arms sales to Red China. "Insofar as other nations are concerned, this is a matter which each of them must decide for itself," Vance said. Vance said American policy remains opposed to sale of U.S. arms to Red China or the Soviets.
Vietnam said at least six Chinese Communist soldiers were killed in a border battle and demanded the Chinese Communists pick up the bodies.
Hundreds of banner-carrying foreign students, mostly Africans, marched on the Red Chinese education ministry and went on strike to protest the expulsion of a Senegalese student.
NOVEMBER 4 - The French government is hesitating to give the go-ahead for negotiations on sale of Mirage jet fighters to Red China, the aircraft's builder, Marcel Dassault, said.
The Soviet Union and Vietnam have pledged in a treaty to take "appropriate and effective measures" against any attacker who threatens the peace of either.
NOVEMBER 5 - Teng Hsiao-ping arrived in Bangkok to open a three-nation tour of Southeast Asia. Only a few hours earlier, the highest ranking Red Chinese delegation ever to visit Communist Cambodia slipped into Phnom Penh without previous public notice to shore up the shaky regime of Pol Pot with assurances of "unconditional moral and material aid" against Vietnam.
NOVEMBER 6 - Washington will not recognize Peiping soon, columnist Stanley Karnow predicted.
Senator W. I. Hayakawa (R.-Calif.) said he believes the United States "must maintain a strong, supporting relationship with our friend and ally, the Republic of China," and should not recognize Red China.
Red China apparently is helping build a new airport in Cambodia capable of handling jet fighters and bombers, according to U.S. intelligence reports.
Red Chinese "vice premiers" Wang Tung-hsin and Yu Chiu-li held talks in Phnom Penh with Cambodian Premier Pol Pot.
Chiang Ching, Mao Tse-tung's widow and leader of the "gang of four," has suffered from breast cancer for many years, a Hong Kong pro-Communist monthly magazine reported.
NOVEMBER 7 - Albania, which considers itself the only true follower of Communist principles, accused its former ally Red China of striving for war in the West.
Besides raw materials, Red China has very little to offer the Western consumer public. Her light industrial products are dozens of years be hind Western standards and fit only for the flea market, according to the influential West German news magazine Der Spiegel.
A wall poster calling for "ideological modernization" in lieu of Peiping's "four modernizations" appeared in Sian, according to an intelligence report reaching Taipei.
Teng Hsiao-ping said the Soviet Union and Vietnam are attempting to encircle Red China and warned non-Communist Southeast Asia to beware of the their attempts at "hegemony." Speaking at a news conference in Bangkok, Teng implied that Peiping was continuing to aid Communist insurgent groups in the region while simultaneously courting Southeast Asia governments.
NOVEMBER 9 - U.S. analysts do not expect either the Soviets or the Chinese Communists to involve their troops in the war between Vietnam and Cambodia, the Washington Star reported.
NOVEMBER 10 - The top social problem in Peiping today is crime, especially among youths and teenagers, People's Daily reported. The report was linked to plans for a shakeup in the city administration under the new "mayor," Lin Hu-chiao
Peng Chen, "mayor" of Peiping from 1951 to 1966 when he was disgraced in the course of the "cultural revolution," has been indirectly rehabilitated in the press.
The New York Times reported that the Malaysian government is convinced that Teng Hsiao-ping is not necessarily sincere in seeking support of non-Communist nations in Southeast Asia. The paper said Teng was given a cool reception in Kuala Lumpur.
NOVEMBER 11 - Red China and Vietnam are rapidly nearing a break in relations because of their continuing border incidents, the Baltimore Sun reported.
The British government is considering a request by Red China's Wang Chen for British Harrier jump-jet fighter aircraft, a spokesman for the trade department said.
Albania continued its press attacks on Red China two days after Albanian Communist party chief Enver Hoxha claimed that the Red Chinese Japanese "treaty" was nothing but an instrument to launch a new war.
NOVEMBER 12 - A top Vietnamese leader blasted recent Red Chinese diplomatic support for the Phnom Penh regime, claiming it will lead to further government repression of Cambodians already rising in rebellion.
Teng Hsiao-ping told Malaysia that Red China will not withdraw support for the 3,000 guerrillas of the banned Communist party of Malaya.
The New York Times carried a report exposing a broad range of problems in the Communist system on mainland China. The report, filed from Hong Kong by Fox Butterfield, said that the problems range from mismanagement and official corruption to shoddy quality and severe shortages of food and industrial goods caused by the rigidities of Communist planning.
Many people on the Chinese mainland view Peiping's current "relaxation of internal controls" as a "now-or-never change" to get out, the New York Times said. That's the reason why more people have left in recent months than at any time since the serious food shortage in 1962, the newspaper said in a Hong Kong dispatch.
NOVEMBER 13 - The London Sunday Times reported that Peiping's offer last week to buy 100 jump-jet Harrier aircraft from Britain is likely to be rejected because of American opposition.
The New York Times reported that a senior Soviet official has said that an alliance between the United States and Red China could destroy detente between Moscow and the West. Georgi A. Arbatov, the Kremlin's leading expert on North America, gave the warning in an interview.
Singapore made clear that it is determined to remain non-Communist, a government spokes man said after a 2%-hour meeting between a Red Chinese delegation led by Teng Hsiao-ping and a Singapore delegation led by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.
Efforts to speed resumption of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and Red China have suffered a setback because of Red China's refusal to withdraw support from Communist guerrillas in Malaysia, Foreign Minister Mochtar Kusuillaatrnadja said.
Red China's Honan province has spent huge sums on unauthorized construction projects and its cadres embezzled flood relief funds to build extravagant halls and throw banquets, Peiping said.
NOVEMBER 14 - Another poor harvest is hitting the Communist-controlled mainland of China, the Washington Post reported. In a dispatch from Canton, Jay Mathews quoted an official traveling with Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland as saying the poor harvest is increasing Red China's interest in grain from the United States.
Russell Watson, foreign editor of Newsweek, who traveled to the Chinese mainland with U.S. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, has returned with a report that the "new China" is extremely backward.
Refugees from the Chinese mainland seeking political asylum in Hong Kong are not to be sent back to the Chinese Communists, the Hong Kong Standard said. This is British policy towards refugees as explained in the House of Lords in London.
A poster possibly signaling disagreement among top Red Chinese party leaders on the "teachings" of Mao Tse-tung has appeared on the wall of a Peiping newspaper office, Kyodo news service reported. Kyodo said the poster at the office of People's Daily accused the Communist party theoretical journal Red Flag of maintaining complete silence in the discussion of Mao's views on the relationship between truth and practice.