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In the journal Hsien-tai Fo-hsueh (Modern Buddhism), September 1959, there appeared a long article entitled "Lun Tsung-chiao Hsin-yang Tzu-yu" ("A Discussion Concerning Freedom of Religious Belief"), by Ya Han-chang, which was originally published in the official Communist ideological journal Hung Ch'i (Red Flag), 1959, No. 14. Appearing as it did in Red Flag it is justifiable to conclude that the views expressed in it represented the accepted Communist attitude toward religion. In this article, Ya wrote that the basic policy of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China is to "recognise that everyone has the freedom to believe in a religion, and also that everyone has the freedom not to believe in a religion."

Chinese chorus Lek Hor Tan reviews Jonathan D. Spence's new book on the Chinese revolution 1895-1980

FOUR NEW TEXTS ON CHINESE POLITICS ARE REVIEWED. THE AUTHORS OF THESE NEW TEXTS ARE HAROLD HINTON, LUCIAN PYE, JOHN BYRAN STARR, AND JAMES TOWNSEND. THE ASSESSMENT OF THESE WORKS SUGGEST THAT CHINESE POLITICS STUDIES MUST STOP BEING ISOLATED FROM THE BROADER CONCERNS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. THESE WORKS BEGIN TO ACCOMPLISH THIS BY THE APPLICATION OF METHODOLOGIES BOWROWED FROM COMPARATIVE POLITICS.

THE AUTHOR, A DEFENSE ANALYST, CLAIMS THAT IN U. S. CHINA POLICY THE DANGER IS THAT WE WILL BE TOO CAUTIUOUS, NOT TOO ACTIVE. ALTHOUGH HE FEELS IT UNLIKELY THAT SOVIET DIPLOMACY CAN CAUSE GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN SOVIET-PEKING RELATIONSHIPS, IT COULD HAPPEN: SO, MOREOVER, COULD WAR. AT THIS POINT CHINESE MILITARY DEFENSES AND STRENGTH ARE NOT GREAT. HE URGES MORE POSITIVE ACTION BY THE U. S.