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28 PEACE IN VtETNAM Chinese foreign policy and intentions if we are willing to cut through her verbose hostility, distinguish between her generat propaganda and specific statements of policy, and at the same time check these against what she is actually doing. Certainly the Chinese are going through a period of militant nationalism that accounts for much of their bellicosity. At the same time, the Chinese leaders believe their revolutionary experience constitutes a model for other underdeveloped countries. But in spite of this scemingly extreme orientation, their specific activities have been tempered by rather conservative guidelines. For example, in terms of both specific statements and actions, the Chinese have been extremely cautious in dealing with the United States. They have gone to some lengths to avoid any direct confrontation with this country, even permitting American convoys of ships to carry Nationalist Chinese troops to Quemoy under their very guns. Furthermore, although the Chinese bave adhered consistently to certain demands, such as their insistence that Taiwan is an in- ternal problem that must be settled without any foreign interfer- ence, they have demonstrated considerable flexibility in dealing with many questions of policy. The chief elements of Chinese foreign policy can be fisted as follows: 1. The Chinese insist that all boundary or territorial conces- sions resulting from the unequal treaties imposed upon China by the colonial powers during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries be renegotiated. Recently new boundary agreements have been negotiated with the now independent countries of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Burma, and Outer Mongolia under terms that more or Jess preserved the status quo and were generally fair to all parties. As yet there has been no boundary settlement with the Soviet Union, India including Sikkhim and Bhutan, Laos, or Vietnam, The Chinese are respecting the terms of the agreements they inherited concerning Hong Kong and Macao, and are not pushing for a return of these territories now. 2. The Peopte’s Republic of China considers Taiwan to be an integral part of its territory and the Nationalist government to be a remnant “counterrevolutionary force” having no Iegal status and maintained only through American armed intervention. Lt insists