THE CASE AGAINST RECOGNIZING RED CHINA
STANLEY K. HORNBECK, onetime chief of the State Department's Office of Far Eastern Affairs in FOREIGN AFFAIRS:
THERE is little or no warrant for believing that our recognition of the Central People's [i.e., Chinese Communist] Government would cause the Communist world or any part of it to modify its over-all objectives and thus resolve or diminish the ultimate cause of tensions in Asia. The net effect probably would be to increase the self-confidence, the will to conquer, and the capabilities of the Soviet-Communist empire. Those who think otherwise would do well to review our recognition of...
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