Canadian attitudes to Communist China.

Canada, enmeshed in the 'China tangle' since 1949, has made only a few, haphazard attempts to cut through the web. The web itself has been spun out of material of almost bewildering complexity: the diplomatic problem of recognition of a Communist government, and in this case, one which replaced a régime friendly to the 'West'; concomitant to recognition, the questions of Chinese admission to the United Nations, a body, incidentally, which has branded the Peking government an aggressor, as well as the future of the former government of China - now in exile on Formosa - and in fact, the future of that very island, and Taiwanese claims to self-determination; also, the multiplicity of cross-threads such as Sino Canadian trade and Canadian church interest in the Chinese people themselves; and underlying all, the United States involvement in the China issues and its influence - direct or otherwise - upon Canadian attitudes and policy, or the lack of it