Page:Longines Chronicles with Leo Mates 1954 ARC-96010.ogv/13

Mates
Our recognition of China was a declaratory act, I mean, a unilateral act on our side, and it was prompted by the belief that the present regime in Peking is the government on the continental mainland of China, a consideration similar to the considerations of several other governments. We do not have and nor did we have any relations whatsoever with the government in Peking, I mean nor correspondence nor ambassadors exchanged. Now to the future attitudes of China in their relationship with Russia, I think it is rather safe to say that China is not very likely to become or to remain a satellite of Moscow. I suppose that China, being a great nation, will probably strive to find her place in the world, and this, I think, in association with the present Russia would be impossible. I think it would be very difficult to imagine that the present regime in Russia could maintain so close relations on the basis of equality, and that's what I think the Chinese will ultimately seek. Now in what way this cause of friction in general will develop into relations between the two countries, it is very difficult to predict. That the friction there is beneath the surface, and will increase in the future, I am firmly convinced.