though a meeting with Thatcher is likely.
Street and the Foreign Office are concerned.
ask questions which no Fleet Street paper would have posed:
Why is Pinochet due to visit China later this month? Chinese cities?
How many going to be publicly tried?
large groups of Chinese merchants?
Tory government? and other questions can be posed.
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Socialist Challenge 12October 1978 Page 2 THE CHINESE Foreign Minister, Huang Hua, is in Britain this week. Rumours that he will be attending the Tory Party conference in Brighton have been strenuously denied by the Chinese Embassy, The main reason for Hua's visit is to cement links with capitalist Europe, develop further trade links, encourage tourism, etc. The cold warriors in Britain will be delighted by the visit, and we doubt whether the cause of Chinese dissidents and 'human rights' will feature prominently in the British press. For the Chinese support NATO, and that makes them immune from criticism as far as Fleet It would appear that no press conference is being organised by the Chinese Embassy or the Foreign Office for the distinguished visitor from China. We were certainly intending to go in order to Are executions of oppositionists still continuing in a number of political prisoners are there in China? Are the Chinese Trotskyists and a number of former Red Guard leaders Why has the Chinese government been defending the rights of expropriated Chinese capitalists in Southern Vietnam? Does it think these expropriations were 'unfair"? If so, why did it not protest when its Cambodian comrades-in-arms simply butchered Does the Chinese government still believe that Britain needs a We will now have to wait for another opportunity before these Socialist