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The article presents commentary on various international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of April 24, 1971. U.S. foreign economic and political relations with China are discussed in detail. The forced closings of domestic paper mills due to Federal anti-pollution standards are reviewed. The State Department's foreign training programs for police methods and anti-communism is described.

The author comments on Red China's Five-Year Plan. According to the plan, national output will have gone up by 51.1%, while industrial production has been ordered to increase by 98.3%. However, China, for all its 600 million people, is still far from being a first-class power even if every goal were reached exactly. There is a difference between having the power to oppress 600 million people and the power needed to convert latent energy into growth which marks a first-class power.

The article comments on the interest of the U.S. military on the strategic island of Formosa. The beautiful island has more than seventy airfields just 150 miles from the coast of the communist China. Formosa has mills to press camphor and refine sugar, factories to produce cloth and paper and aluminum, canneries to pack fish and fruit and hydroelectric plants to power the island.

The article focuses on a discussion on U.S. policy toward China held in October 1949. The Department of State has acknowledged Red China on its White Paper. According to Lawrence K. Rosinger of the Institute of Pacific Relations, there is a stake to be won in considering China's public opinion. The experts can be excused for taking little consideration of the public opinion of the U.S. because it was not included in the department's agenda.

The article focuses on the ruling of the court on the case between a major in one of the British regiments stationed, who apply for a transfer, and with his commanding officer who was stationed in Hong Kong, China. On the day before the major's transfer, there was a parade and review in which the commandant reached the major and found that he was wearing a green paper nose. However, the major admitted that he wore a false nose, and he was acquitted.

The article focuses on China lobbyist Alfred Kohlberg. Kohlberg would indeed be either the very last person or the very first person one would expect to discover trafficking in Communist Chinese merchandise. The U.S. customs authorities apparently saw it the latter way when, in December, 1954, they impounded 30,800 embroidered linen handkerchiefs, worth $90,000, which Kohlberg had imported from Hong Kong. Kohlberg protests they were not made in Communist China but in Hong Kong. Kohlberg will be remembered as the voluble New York propagandist who seven years ago led the China Lobby's attack on the State Department's now-exiled China hands.