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The article presents news briefs and commentary on international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of July 3, 1961. Negotiations and relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over government in divided Germany are analyzed. The personnel profile of the members of the Central Intelligence Agency is discussed. Evidences pointing towards a possible famine in China are presented.

This article focuses on the Red China's struggle for respectability and recent exploitation of Hong Kong's Mercantilism by it. Because of its exposed position, Hong Kong, China, is sensitive every policy innuendo affecting the mainland. Hong Kong's preoccupation is trade and especially trade with Red China. The colony's economic barometer flutters nervously with every shift in the cold war policy line. Recently, the immediate result of the British announcement, for the lifting of the ban on shipments of rubber from Malaya to China, was a bad case of jitters. Some Hong Kong traders shared the buoyancy of those in Singapore who bid up rubber futures. In early June 1956, after the removal of the Malayan rubber restrictions, editors of the newspaper, "China Mail," conceded that Red China would hardly be willing to settle for half a loaf.

Presents information on the Chinese revolution and discusses its impact on the U.S. Statement that it signals the opening of a new phase in the Cold War, aimed not at the destruction of the U.S. but at its isolation; Details of the history of Chinese revolution; Role played by China in the first Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference in Cairo; Peking's interest in the underprivileged masses of the rest of the world; Significance of the flow of political delegation from underdeveloped world to China; Call for persistent struggles against the U.S. imperialism by the press and Chinese political leaders.