Treaty Hoaxes

At the present time, this specifically means the nuclear super-powers the USSR and the USA. The continual "partial nuclear test-ban treaty" and the "treaty of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons have never been anything more than a hoax". "In our opinion", said Chen Chu at the United Nations last year, "if there is to be disarmament it should be genuine disarmament, and it must not be used as a slogan to deceive the people. If a world disarmament conference is called, it must contribute to the promotion of the struggle of the peace-loving people of the world for the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons and must not serve to lull and hoodwink them."

Quite clearly the present world situation, where the dual superpower imperialisms attempt to divide the world into "peaceful" spheres of influence, any talk of nuclear disarmament or indeed any disarmament is quite pointless. It does however suit the two super powers, for two reasons. First, they both already have enough nuclear bombs to destroy life on our planet. Second, nuclear warfare is to a certain extent by-passed for them by either conventional warfare or the vastly increased biological warfare they have developed. As Chen Chu put it, "the actual situation is that the overwhelming majority of countries in the world are being subjected to the threat by nuclear superpowers in varying degrees. To convene the world disarmament conference under such conditions is in effect demanding that these countries accept 'terms of surrender' under the nuclear threat."

In these circumstances the Chinese see themselves as developing nuclear weapons "solely for the purpose of defence and for breaking the nuclear monopoly and ultimately eliminating nuclear weapons and nuclear war". (Peking Review, June 16, 1972)