Lesueur
Dr. Tsiang, as an official of the Formosa Nationalist government of China, what is your personal opinion of the agreement that has been reached in Indochina with the Vietminh communists and the Red Chinese communists?
Tsiang
I myself think it is a great mistake. First of all you have the material losses and gains to think of. Twelve million people, so much territory, and coal mines, tungsten, wolfram in North Vietnam. These are material gains or losses. Then on other hand, the immaterial, the invisible losses to the free world are immense. The free world has lost the confidence to a considerable degree of all the people of that region. And the morale of all these peoples has received a very severe blow. Today, when you think that Ho Chi Minh, leader of the Vietminh, nine years ago started with almost nothing and got today half of Vietnam. Now, with half of Vietnam, how much he can do in another nine years.