aims. to extend China's diplomatic connections lished on 20 January in Peking: "The two and to edge out Moscow in a whole series of countries, Of course, there would be nothing wrong in this if the Chinese communists were at the same time developing their support for the revolutionary struggles in these countries. For in the long team the only way to defend und develop the Chinese revolution is to develop the revolutionary struggle against the imperialist and capitalist regimes.
But China's foreign policy in the last few years Is clear proof that the Chinese leadership sets littlo value on this elementary principle of any revolutionary internationalist policy. And its policy towards the African continent is particularly significant in this respect.
On 5 October 1971, the "King of Kings" Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was welcomed to Peking. The People's Daily commented as follows: *Practising a policy of non-alignment, peace anc neutrality, the Ethiopian government has opposed imperialist aggression against the Afro-Asian countries, thus making a valuable contribution to the strengthening of Afro-Asian solidarity against imperialism.
But doesn't the Chinese bureaucracy know Cor doesn't it wish to know that Ethiopia in the parties are glad to note that the struggle led by the Afro-Asian countries and peoples against imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism, for the achievement and maintenance of nationnal independence, is reaching new heights... the two parties agreed to declare that China and Zaire infend to work, together with the other countries of the Third World, to combat the outrageous expansionist policies of the big powers. (Peking News, 29 January 1973). Mobutu's murky past is well-known -hisrole in the assassination of Lumumba, for instance, was exposed by a United Nations commission of inquiry. But it is in his relations with the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) that he has most recently distinguished himself. Last year President Mobutu, along with other leaders of African neo-colonial regimes, was pressing for a fusion agreement between the FNLA of Roberto Holden (a movement which anly exists in exile, and which has some very dubious supporters) and the MPLA led by Agostino Neto. Through this operation Mobutu prompted by several of the Western powers, launched an offensive to make the MPLA abandon its revolutionary strategy. This "political' offensive depended on a plot to assassinate the MPLA leaders, a plot which was only recently reason to envy his predecessors. The People's Daily (25 March 1973) bad this to say: We are convinced that this visit will not only strengthen some, abandoned by others, but never by our the relations of friendship and cooperation established between Cameroun and China on the basis of the five principles of peaceful coexistence, but will also contribute to the cause of the anti-imporialist solidarity of the AfroAssan peopie. We wish every sucoess to President Ahidjo?
A stooge of French coloninlism since the beginning of "he liberation struggle in Camicroun, burexucracy, Ilm Prechel have learnt much during these nine long years of armed struggle. We have been betrayed by own people. Whatever fate awaits us, our people will carry on their just struggle until the regime which has been imposed on them to protect the interests of imperialism and colonialism is swept out of our country for ever It is clear, therefore, that the interests of the struggling peoples of Africa have nothing what. soever un common with those of the Chinese