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This section offers international business news briefs. Japan announced that it will open a central bank in Peking, China which will lay the groundwork for monetary reform in all of China under Japanese occupation. The provincial government of Quebec has purchased a gold mine to be used as a practical training school for young miners. English River Pulp Co. will start construction of a large pulp and paper plant in Northern Ontario.

The article describes reasons for absence of euphoria in the celebration of Communist party chairman Mao Tse-tung army's triumph over the nationalists during 1949 on October 1, 1971 in Peking, China. It explores the possible reasons behind the absence of euphoria in the celebrations. It describes the reason to be the speculations about the demise of Mao and Defense Minister and Vice Chairman Lin Piao. It also discusses the speculation on the involvement of a Chinese defector former President Liu Shaochi regarding whom important papers and documents were found in the wreckage of a Chinese air force plane crash in Northeast Mongolia.

The article reports on various revolutions in Peking, China. These include the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Maoist riots, threats and demonstrations, and the retributory action by their own citizens. In response, Burma is planning to deal with 500,000 chanting and marching anti-Chinese demonstrators a day. The Outer Mongolia has broken off its relationship with the country in the heat of Red Guard attacks on the Mongolian embassy in Peking.

Focuses on the conflict between India and Pakistan. Discussion on the possible consequences of Beijing's control of the Indian subcontinent and the Himalayas; Information that the Chinese Communists are certainly aware that contingency plans for these operations exist, and for that reason they will restrict their maneuvers to the controlled provocations, troop deployments, demands and threats that they have lately been using.

In this article journalist Scotty Reston discusses views of Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai related to improved relations of China and the U.S. Chou asserts the transformed attitude of China towards the U.S. and expects a position for Peking, China in the United Nations. Chou declared that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from Viet Nam, Japan, and Thailand. It mentions the deep anxiety of Chou over a revival of Japanese militarism that would threaten both Korea and Taiwan.

The article describes the level of anti-Americanism promoted by Communist China from Peking south to Canton. The Communists warned of retaliatory United Nations (U.N.) air raids and possible actions by the anti-Communist underground. A decree was issued on the use of camouflage paint for all tall buildings in Canton. Under the Resist America propaganda, students were recruited for military service.

The article reports on the decision of the government of Peking, China to grant a temporary visa to Frederick C. Nossal of the "Toronto Globe and Mail." It mentions that Nossal has done little to impair the paper's diplomatic relations with Red China. His stories have sounded as if they were translated from the original Red Chinese. He claims that any Western commentators who suggest that the masters of Peking do away with their critics are talking utter nonsense.

The article presents commentary on various international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of August 7, 1971. The diplomatic logistics of President Richard Nixon's visit to Peking, China to meet with the head of the Peoples Republic of China is discussed in detail. Congressional efforts towards reducing poverty are outlined, including criticism on several government paradigms and welfare systems. Statements by senators against campaign spending are explored.

Focuses on the political division in China. Inauguration of Sun Yat Sen in Canton as the president of all China; Difference between the Peking and Canton governments; Conflict between the conservatives and progressives; Plan to introduce local self-government and universal primary education in Canton; Suggestion that the de facto Peking government represents the cause of national unity while the southern government represents a perpetuation of that division of China; Foreign recognition of the Peking government and recognition of the southern government as a revolutionary government.

Focuses on the life and works of former university teacher Edgar Snow in Beijing, China. Experiences of Snow in the university as told in the book "Journey to the Beginning"; Suffering from cancer of the pancreas; Job as a writer before becoming a teacher and educator; Career history; Achievements; Contributions to education.

Narrates the author's travel experience in Peking, China. Description of East Chanagan Avenue; Accommodations at Hsin Chiao Hotel; Compensation preferred by attendants instead of tips; Prevalence of honesty in China; Visitors who frequent China; Information on the Great Hall of the People, Tian An Men square and Museum of the Chinese Revolution; Advantages and disadvantages of riding a rickshaw; Conversation with the head librarian of Forbidden City about Soviet Communists.

The article focuses on Peiping, a former transliteration of Beijing. The first few weeks of Communist control in the presumed future capital of the most populous Communist-led nation in the world have been curiously undramatic. This may be largely because Peiping was not seized by storm either from within or without but surrendered by agreement on January 22, 1949. Many Peiping residents were less enthusiastic. The long-suffering Chinese are a skeptical and pragmatic people who judge governments not by their names or programs but by whether they allow people to prosper.

Discusses the political conditions in Beijing, China. Power and problems of succession; Prime minister Chou En-lai's determination to curb the volatile radicals, downgrade the predominance of the army and reestablish experienced civilian authority capable of managing the country; Introduction of rational rules and regulations into the economic sphere in order to discourage frenetic development episodes which nearly wrecked China in the late 1950; Rehabilitation of officials who had been dismissed during the Cultural Revolution.

United States officials time and time again have laid, charges both in and out of the United Nations that Red China is engaged in an opium offensive against the people of the Western world. These charges, which help to keep the U.S. public in a state of hypnotized conviction that the Peking government is too barbarous to be permitted to assume China's seat in the United Nations, are not borne out by the preponderance of evidence in the opium ports of the East where evidence is obtained. They are looked upon largely as poppy cock by men whose job it is to beat the illicit narcotics traffic.

The article focuses on the dangers faced by correspondents that reside in Peking, China. It notes that John Burns from "Toronto Globe and Mail" had been able to travel fairly in the country and had developed a good relationship with a number of Chinese officials. It also notes that Chinese people allowed the resident foreign press corps to increase from 18 to 42 reporters after the birth of the Ping Pong diplomacy. It states that the correspondents must live in a segregated foreign quarter and are not allowed to have provincial newspapers and interviews with knowledgeable Chinese. It adds that none of the resident foreign correspondents knew the Tenth Communist Party Congress which was convened in the Great Hall of the people.

The article offers information on the global social impacts of the Peking summit wherein U.S. President Richard Nixon was welcomed in China. It states that the summit stirred some feeling of apprehension to the capitals in Southeast Asia wherein Arab states in Middle East gave only passing press and attention to it. Moreover, Japan Premier Eisaku Sato has recognized the event while Moscow, Russia welcomed the summit with anti-Chinese propaganda but, did not give direct attack on Nixon.

The exhibition of painting and objects from the former Chinese Imperial collections, now shown at the Metropolitan Museum, later scheduled across the country, is of an inconceivable richness. Only historical accidents that permitted transportation of the patrimony of movable Chinese art to Formosa, where it has not been improved by storage in caves during recent years, allows people in the U.S. to see work which in other times could have been enjoyed only in Peking, China. In painting, oriental art differs from the U.S.'s principally in its underlying conception of representing time and space not in climaxes, but a continuum.

The article focuses on the implication of a speech by Chia Tofu, vice chairman of the Chinese Economic and Financial Committee, on the industry of China delivered in Peking in May 1953. He described the industrial foundations of the country as very weak and their industrial technique as backward. He predicted a 4.6 percent increase in machine-tool production and 29.1 percent in petroleum. An article in the newspaper "People's Daily" has acknowledged the poor design of the industrialization program of the government.

The article focuses on the Red Guards created by Communist leader Mao Tse-tung in Peking, China. It says that Red Guards, organized by Mao's longtime ghostwriter Chen Pota, aimed at obliterating China's own precommunist period and rooting out all foreign influence. The Guards were on the rampage in Peking, changing the street signs to revolutionary names and humiliating Franciscan nuns. It adds that Red Guard units sacked party headquarters and fought with local party leaders.

The article focuses on the extraordinary prominence and amount of space given to China Korea after the death of Joseph Stalin, leader of a communist party. Of all the foreign dignitaries at Stalin's funeral, Chou En-lai was given the most publicity in the Soviet press, and both Moscow and Peking have since sought to impress upon the world that their mutual friendship remains unshaken by the change in the Soviet regime. For months it has been drummed into the Russians that the inclusion of China in the Communist bloc was their greatest post-war victory; in comparison, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany are but small stuff.

The Chinese nation as it exists today on the mainland of Asia has been hovering in the background of all discussions at Lake Success. When U.S. Representative in the United Nations Security Council, Warren R. Austin urges that Peking's complaint about the alleged bombing of Manchurian soil should be investigated on the spot by a commission composed of India and Sweden, both of which have diplomatic representatives at Peking, but that the Communist regime should not be invited to the Security Council table for discussion of its complaint, one cannot help thinking that the U.S. may be just as much in an "Alice in Wonderland" state of mind about China as Russia is about Korea.

The article focuses on the indignation of China to the political advertising of the periodical "The New York Times". It states that the acceptance of advertisements and exchange of newsmen were against the diplomatic ties between Washington D.C. and Peking. It notes that the press would not change its policy as political advertising is part of a free press, adding that "Washington Post" and the "The New York Daily News" run similar ads but have not received any objections from the country.

The article profiles several individuals including Marshall Green, Winston Lord and John H. Holdridge who belonged to the U.S. delegation for the Peking summit in Beijing, China in 1972. It states that Green, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, would have been appointed as Ambassador to Japan if not for the summit. It tells that Lord served as an assistant of U.S. politician Henry Kissinger. Moreover, it says that Holdridge was as a U.S. diplomat in Thailand.

The article discusses the encounters of the Walsh brothers, Roman Catholic Bishop James Edward Walsh and Judge William Concannon Walsh at a prison cell in Peking, China. Bishop Walsh was noted to be imprisoned for an alleged espionage and conspiracy in China during his 18 years of missionary work under the Catholic Central Bureau at Mount St. Mary's College. Bishop Walsh brother William had visited Bishop James Edward for the last to hand him over a rosary and other necessities.

The article focuses on the reflections of Mao Tse-tung regarding the policy changes of Peking, China in Quemoy, Taiwan. It states that Peking proclaimed a cease-fire in Quemoy and then present a policy of attacking the area on alternate days, which did not understand by Communists. It mentions that Red China has published a selected anthology of speeches and writings by Mao since 1940 regarding the superiority of U.S. military over Red China to ensure that Chinese understanding of the policy.

The article reports on the economic development program by Peiping, China. It relates the confession of the city that the program is way behind schedule and its 1958 statistics on the great leap forward were grossly exaggerated. It describes political troubles to be faced by the program in Communist Party ranks.

Focuses on the climate of fear in Hong Kong, China, due to increasing disintegration and cruelty. Factors suggesting an anti-Communist attitude in Hong Kong; Mental turmoil due to capitulation of Macao and continuing Communist disturbances; Complexity of the nature of fear; Businessmen who fled Hong Kong due to fear; Aims of Peking, China.