Sundström, Carl-Johan (Cay)

Mao Zedong spoke to the Finnish Ambassador Carl-Johan Sundstrom on the history of Chinese wars with European powers and states that China and Finland have had friendly relations. He then addressed the possibility of the U.S. waging an atomic war over Taiwan and how Chinese would respond. Finally, Mao foreshadowed the downfall of U.S. and British ruling classes to the end of tsarist Russia and Chiang Kai-shek should the United States enter another world war.

This issue contains Mao Zedong's congratulations to the supreme head of the Malayan Union for its declaration of independence and Foreign Minister Zhou Enlai's acknowledgment of the new state. It also features sections on China-Vietnam economic exchanges, extending the China-Finland economic trade agreement, recommendations to ministry of supervision on dealing with civil affairs, public and private joints need to verify liquidation and capital ventures, and foreign loan control methods.