Teng Hsiao-ping has become a dictator and "is no longer worthy of the people's trust and support," according to the Peiping magazine Tan Suo, or Exploration. The article said Teng has betrayed public trust by re-imposing restrictions on freedom of expression. "Does Teng Hsiao-ping want democracy?" the activist periodical asked. "No, he does not. He does not understand the people's sufferings."
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Juanita Kreps told Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira the United States and Japan should not compete in giving soft credits to Peiping, Kyodo news service reported.
Court trials in Red China in the past three decades were conducted by order of the Communist party without any legal proceedings, according to a Peiping report in the Mainichi Shimbun.
The Chinese Communists have surpassed other tyrants of modern times with their massive crimes against humanity, U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater told the Senate. He said "There is documented proof from a world judicial institution that the tyrants who are running (Red) China have committed genocide."
People's Daily published an unusually harsh attack on unnamed "leading cadres" for "luxuriant super living." The Communist party organ painted a picture of waste, extravagance and favoritism at the top.
MAY 17 - American business must be willing to take substantial risks in its dealings with Red China to gain a solid share of the potential market, Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal said.
MAY 18 - Red Chinese "vice defense minister" Su Yu said in Tokyo that the large Soviet military force deployed along the Soviet border poses a threat to mainland China, Japanese officials reported.
Moscow is warning Washington of Peiping's "fifth column" activity in the United States, according to a recent issue of Soviet World Outlook, a publication by the Advanced International Studies Institute in Washington.
Japanese representatives signed an agreement with the Communist Bank of China to provide US$8 billion in two loans for Red Chinese development projects.
The United States was "disturbed" by Peiping's recent arrests of political activists, said John Cannon, State Department spokesman for East Asian and Pacific affairs.
Yang Shang-kun, a long-time follower of Teng Hsiao-ping, has been named mayor of Canton, a Japanese report said.
Red Chinese envoys in Hanoi abruptly ended negotiation with the Vietnamese and announced they would leave for home.
More and more young mainland Chinese are rude to their elders, struggle for seats on the bus, fight in theaters and loaf when they work, a reader complained in a Peiping newspaper.
Recent visitors to the Chinese mainland have been astonished by a dramatic change in the mood of the people after 30 years of Communist rule. Open defiance against the Communist regime has replaced once silent resentment, reports from Peiping said.
The Central Intelligence Agency said Red China lacks the human and material resources to carry out its plan to more than double its annual steel production by 1985.
Red China condemned the U.S.-Soviet Salt n treaty as being "tricky," "incomprehensible" and liable to "bring about only disaster."
MAY 20 - Red China's educated city bred youth has become a peacetime problem. Thousands have returned to the cities where authorities seem at a loss about how to cope with them. Unemployed, restless and disillusioned, they are potential sources of trouble.
Eighteen Tibetans in exile said they have abandoned plans to visit their homeland after 20 years in India because Chinese Communist authorities insist they travel as Chinese Communist nationals.
MAY 21 - An American columnist has found that the position of Teng Hsiao-ping appears to have been eroded while that of Hua Kuo-feng has been strengthened. Joseph Kraft, who met both Teng and Hua recently, said he was surprised to find that Teng "seemed restrained, almost wistful." Kraft found Hua to be "well-informed and composed."
The Red Chinese have looked over inflated prices in the West and decided to earn desperately needed foreign exchange by charging foreigners more. They have doubled the price on anything foreigners buy — antiques, arts and crafts and rugs," said a Western diplomat in Peiping.
Red China and Vietnam exchanged wounded and sick prisoners for the first time since Red China's four-week invasion of Vietnam in February and March. Vietnamese numbered 120 and Red Chinese 43.
A Chinese mainland dissident group has called on "democratic and peace-loving foreign governments" to put pressure on Communist authorities for the release of political prisoners.
MAY 22 - Peiping announced that if members of the Communist party attended religious activities, they would be stripped of party membership, the Asahi Shimbun said. In spite of this, the paper said, religion is reviving.
Artistic and literary creation in Red China remains fettered by "ultra-leftist" currents, People's Daily said.
Teng Hsiao-ping's political control started declining perceptibly with the Chinese Communist invasion of Vietnam, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak wrote in their joint column in the Washington Post.
A Peiping secondary school has intensified Communist indoctrination of students because some are more interested in clothes and fun than in political studies, People's Daily said.
Gangs of hard core criminals are threatening public order in mainland China's Hunan Province and some officials are afraid of tackling them, a provincial broadcast reported.
Continued drought threatens mainland China's major rice producing provinces of Szechwan and Hupeh.
The London Daily Telegraph reported that over 75,000 illegal immigrants have entered Hongkong from the Chinese mainland this year. These refugees will not be sent back. Some 25,000 were caught by the army and police and handed back to the Communist authorities.
President Jimmy Carter has no plans to visit Peiping this year, State Department spokesman John Cannon said.
An open clash between Wang Tung-hsing, a party vice chairman and No. 4 man in the Chinese Communist ruling clique, and Wei Kuo-ching, commissar of the "people's liberation army," occurred during a recent meeting of the Chinese Communist party's politburo, an intelligence report revealed in Taipei.
America's policy of allying with Red China is both risky and immoral, said Robert Strausz-Hupe, U.S. ambassador to NATO from 1976-77. The Carter administration's recognition of Peiping at the expense of the Republic of China cannot escape the final judgment by the "court of historical justice," he declared, adding that the risks of the decision are many and the benefits few.
Victor G. Afanasiev, chief editor of the Soviet Communist party newspaper Pravda, said Moscow's growing military presence in the Far East is aimed at Red China. The Soviet Union needs strong military power in the Far East to counter a "powerful" regime which is going to "teach a lesson" to other Asian countries, including Japan, Afanasiev told the Japan National Press Club.
Two Russian soldiers were killed in a border clash with Red Chinese agents, Maj. Gen. V. Gaponenko, head of the political administration of KGB Frontier Troops, said in Moscow.
MAY 25 - Red China is facing serious juvenile problems caused not only by intellectuals sent to farms and remote regions but also by young people in factories, the Nihon Keizai Shim bun said in a dispatch from Shanghai.
Red China does not constitute a significant market on a per capita basis, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. It warned exporters against making the assumption that Red China would buy whatever products they have to sell and consequently believing that it is only necessary to multiply by 1 billion consumers and count the profits.
The Canton trade fair was disappointing, Business Week reported. "Foreign traders were discouraged by (Red) Chinese reluctance to buy and by a shortage of export items," the magazine said.
MAY 26 - The Chinese Communists have imposed severe punishment for those fleeing the mainland, but this has not halted the exodus of refugees longing for freedom and food. Kyodo news service reported from Peiping that many bulletins have been put up in Canton warning that those who mastermind escapes would be punished.
Mainland China loses 20 billion to 30 billion kilowatt hours of electricity and tens of millions of tons of coal yearly because of poor industrial management, People s Daily said.
His voice booming out in Latin with an American accent, a Minnesota priest became the first foreigner to say mass in Peiping's only Roman Catholic Church since 1949. The unprecedented service by Father Albert Blatz in the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary was not open to the public.
MAY 28 - In their second exchange of prisoners since Red China's attack on Vietnam in February and March, Vietnam freed 20 sick and wounded Red Chinese and Red China released 118 Vietnamese.
Moscow and Hanoi are making preparations for a war against Peiping, a mass-circulation French-language newspaper reported. Gerard Le Quand, foreign affairs reporter for France-Soir, said "the balance of forces is changing in Southeast Asia."
Vietnamese Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap charged Red China with "pursuing new moves and preparing new military adventures" against Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
Red China's efforts to modernize and expand medical facilities over the next 25 years may be an impossible task, said Dr. W. J. Keon, a leading heart specialist and chief surgeon at Ottawa's Civic Hospital's cardiac unit. He said the Chinese Communists are using equipment that is 20 years ago out of date.
MAY 29 - Nigel Wade of the London Daily Telegraph reported from Peiping that police arrested another editor of the unofficial paper Tan Suo. He is Yang Kuang, a science student.
Tension continued on the Red China-Vietnam border despite the release of a second group of prisoners of war. Several incidents marred the prisoner exchange, the "New China News Agency" reported.
MAY 30 - Chinese on the mainland, especially Communist cadres, are passive, mainly because they fear that if they follow the present "new policy routes" they may become victims when the leadership changes, Mainichi Shimbun of Japan said in a dispatch from Peiping.
Red China is abandoning its go-it-alone philosophy and vaulting into the ranks of the world's most heavily indebted nations. The debt load is expected to exceed US$30 billion by year's end, Hongkong banking officials said.
Red Chinese authorities have placed new restrictions on contacts between mainlanders and foreigners, according to informed sources in Peiping. A police notice on the new restriction was recently read out at various institutes, mainly those teaching foreign languages.
MAY 31 - Columnist William Safire of the New York Times said four groups are struggling for power on the Chinese mainland. He described them as those of Wang Tung-hsing, the weakest; Hua Kuo-feng, the most underrated; Teng Hsiao-ping, assumed by the Carter administration to be in charge; and Chen Yun, a mystery faction.
The United States has imposed unilateral quotas on imports of certain textiles from Red China in the wake of a stalemate in negotiations. The quotas for five categories of textiles for the year beginning May 31 are as follows: cotton gloves, 2,949,006 dozen pairs; cotton blouses, 535,659 dozen; cotton shirts, not knit, 354,613 dozen; cotton trousers, 1,088,632 dozen; sweaters of man-made fiber, 334,834 dozen.
Japan has no plan to construct facilities other than an already-built helicopter pad on the disputed Senkaku (Tiaoyutai) Islands, a Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
JUNE 1 - A quarrel between the Maoists and pragmatists looms large in the Peiping hierarchy with Teng Hsiao-ping emerging the likely winner, according to the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hongkong.
Troubled with payment difficulties, Red China told Japanese contractors it was forced to cancel two multi-million-dollar projects for constructing petrochemical plants.
Latest figures show mainland China's population is nearing the 1 billion mark, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported.
Widespread corruption among Communist cadres has swollen the number of mainland Chinese emigrants to Hongkong, the Washington Post reported. Jay Mathews wrote from Hongkong that recent arrivals confirmed a report by the Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao of an unexpected increase in bribery under Peiping's new local administrative procedures.
JUNE 2 - Red China is not a bonanza market for U.S. exports, agricultural or otherwise, said James C. Webster of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
JUNE 3 - With the recent arrest of scores of leading dissidents advocating democracy and human rights, Maoism appears to have reasserted itself on the Chinese mainland. Time-Life News Service reported from Hongkong that Chinese Communist party officials have been working hard to retrieve Mao's basic ideology that was tossed out of the window last winter.
A military alliance between Japan, South Korea, the United States and Taiwan will emerge if Red China stages an attack on Taiwan, Edward Luttwak, senior researcher at the Center for Strategy and International Relations of Georgetown University, said in Taipei.
JUNE 4 - The existence of serious splits in the Chinese Communist party over policy were confirmed by Peiping Daily in a report on a work meeting of the Peiping municipal Communist party committee.
Mandarin pop songs recorded in Taiwan and Hongkong have become very popular in Shanghai, according to a report from the mainland. Youths in Red China's largest city are familiar with such famous Taiwan pop singers as Miss Teng Li-chun, Ching Shan and Jenny.
Chinese Communist bureaucrats and trade officials not only accept but solicit bribes from foreigners, Time magazine reported. The prized "gifts" include stereo hi-fi systems, expensive Japanese cameras and even automobiles.
JUNE 5 - The Soviet Union, in a bid to strengthen its hand against the United States before the Vienna summit, announced it had offered Red China negotiations to normalize and improve relations.
President Anwar Sadat announced Egypt has concluded a new arms deal with Red China in line with Cairo's policy of diversifying its armament sources.
Peiping lashed out against Hanoi's "ruthless extortion and export of refugees" as "an intense human tragedy" comparable to "Hitler's persecution of Jews."
JUNE 6 - Hua Kuo-feng will visit Britain from October 29 to November 3 as part of a European tour that will also take him to France and West Germany.
Despite the Peiping regime's crackdown, the people on the mainland continue their democratic movement, intelligence reports from the mainland said. A wall poster on Nanking Road in Shanghai called for equality of all people on the mainland and freedom of speech.
JUNE 7 - American specialists believe Red China failed to achieve most of its objectives in the border war with Vietnam, raising the danger of another larger conflict in the next year or two, the New York Times reported.
JUNE 8 - Red China's leaders don't hide opposition to the Soviet-American strategic arms limitation agreement — SALT II — and nurse the hope that U.S. senators suspicious of Moscow's intentions will rally enough votes to block its ratification.
Teng Hsiao-ping has been branded as the "new dictator" by the people on the Chinese mainland, an intelligence report from the mainland said.
Chen Yun, a veteran economic planner who was purged during the "cultural revolution," is now the principal voice in Red China's economic development, Business Week reported.
Security guards have been riding shotgun on municipal buses and trolley buses in the mainland Chinese port city of Tientsin to protect passengers from criminals, according to a mainland broadcast.
JUNE 9 - Teng Hsiao-ping has assumed responsibility for the current situation on the Chinese mainland, an intelligence report said. Teng was quoted as saying, "It seems that I have caused a disaster."
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew said that "for the time being," Red China "is not in a position to pursue her aim to communize the countries of Southeast Asia through the Communist parties in these countries." But Red China has "consistently refused to abjure this aim. It is wise to remember this," Lee said.
JUNE 10 - The Chinese Communist press reported a current debate on whether agriculture should concentrate on mechanization or increasing production on available land. People's Daily quoted a top official as advocating the latter solution because of the conditions of agriculture, the economy and the population.
JUNE 11 - " The restoration of diplomatic relations between Indonesia and Red China is unlikely in the near future," Indonesian Political and Security Affairs Minister M. Panggabean said.
The Chinese Communist party repeated its opposition to egalitarianism, declaring it was promoting passivity and disrupting production. People s Daily called for promotions and larger bonuses for those who work harder.
The entire Chinese mainland coastline is virtually an unexplored sea treasury but Red China's marine technology is 20 years behind that of Japan, a Hongkong newspaper said.
The government cannot relax its restrictions on social visits by Malaysians to Red China for security reasons, Prime Minister Hussein Onn told parliament.
The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Red China is "a hardbitten Marxist state" and that the United States should be realistic in dealing with it. Idaho Democrat Frank Church said such an attitude would strengthen America's policies in dealing with Peiping.
Mark Gayn, foreign affairs analyst for the Toronto Star, said in a Peiping dispatch that "a tour of (Red) China quickly becomes a journey into a world of nightmares." Gayn said: "Strike up a conversation with a professor, a movie actor, a trade union man, a student, and suddenly tears well up in their eyes and the voices falter as they recount the fearsome things done to them in Mao's name."
The United States and Red China signed an agreement under which Peiping will use American know-how to build the world's fourth largest particle accelerator.
The energy crisis is affecting the Chinese mainland much more cruelly than North America, said Mark Gayn of the Toronto Star.
JUNE 13 - Capitalist-style incentives are being introduced in Red China's communes, effectively scrapping Mao Tse-tung's vision of rural socialism. The 28,000 members of the Lokang Commune in Kwangtung Province are paid on the basis of how hard they work, not how much they need.
Red China and Vietnam exchanged their fourth batch of prisoners captured during the border war earlier this year. Two International Red Cross representatives watched as 65 Chinese Communist and 577 Vietnamese prisoners were repatriated.
JUNE 14 - A wall poster in Peiping attacked Chinese Communist leaders for their totalitarian rule in the cause of so-called "proletariat democracy," an intelligence report from the Chinese mainland said.
Peiping's top economic policymaker said 100 million mainland Chinese do not have enough to eat and that 20 million are unemployed. Li Hsien-nien, the No.4 man in Red China's leadership, said the regime was spending US$6 billion more than it was taking in because of mismanagement.
JUNE 15 - Both Red China and Russia are selling gold to earn dollars to buy American grain, the Christian Science Monitor said. The paper said bad weather has dashed hopes for a bumper crop in the two Communist lands.
Red China has proposed the reopening of border negotiations with the Soviet Union, suspended since the spring of last year.
Mao Tse-tung has a granddaughter, People's Daily revealed. The unnamed girl appeared in a photograph of Mao's recently rehabilitated third wife, Ho Tzu-chen.
Teng Hsiao-ping said Red China's economic planning has set too high a tone. He said that putting together all the purchase contracts signed in the past year "would run into the red to the tune of US$18 billion. We must put a brake (on these practices) immediately."