Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 4

No Taiwan Compromise Acting Peking Chief Says editor is traveling in China with a group of journalists from the American Society of Newspaper Editors By David Laventhol Newsday Editor Prking China will never compromise with the United States on the issue of Taiwan However the man who is in day-to-day charge of this nation of 800 million also told a group of visiting American newspaper editors today that this need not prevent President scheduled visit here this fall Teng Hsiao-ping stressed repeatedly that Taiwan must ultimately become part of China preferably by peaceful means but he said that force may have to be used Another high Chinese official emphasized even more strongly die possibility of a need for force Teng said that foil normalization of relations with the United- States cannot take place until the United States agrees to cut all diplomatic and military ties to Taiwan But Teng first vice premier and top functioning leader while both Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai are ill said that an agreement is not a necessary condition of continuing relations between the two countries Twice during die two-hour interview Teng said that Ford would be welcome to come to China even if Taiwan waa not discimned and even if there were no agreements on any major questions between the two countries There had been reports both here and in die United States that the White House might cancel the trip because of die apparent impassibility of reaching any understanding on Taiwan Some western observers here speculated that Teng was suggesting a way to salvage die visit despite the Taiwan impasse if the President was willing to ml the trip on those term On the other hand he could have been signaling that there "Wt much point in die visit at all these observers said Teng was insistent on the immutability of Taiwan stance He said no compromises of any kind were passible He specifically rejected a proposal that had been made by Sen Henry Jackson (D-Wash) that the UJ9L Embassy in Taiwan be downgraded to a liaison office and that the Present UA liaison office In Peking become a full embassy He also said that he and other top Chinese leaders would not visit the United States as long as Taiwan waa recognized but he made dear that Peking was not intent on forcing a solution to the issue now He said on two occasions that China could wait to achieve its ultimate goaL But when asked how long China would wait he offered no answer Teng answered questions on a broad range of subjects during the interview with 18 American newspaper editors at the Great Hall of the People The group on a 24-day visit to China as part of a journalistic cultural exchange had asked to interview top Chinese officials The meeting was held in a large reception room on the first floor of the Great HalL The group sat in sutffed and wicker chairs arranged in circular fashion in the center- of the room which was decorated with antique vases and prints Teng and Eugene' Patterson editor of the St Petersburg (Ha) Times and leader of the American group sat next to each other behind two tiny microphones Tea waa served four times during the prolonged session and at one' point toward the end Teng excused himself for a brief respite The 71-year-old vice premier answered his questioners directly and firmly and with a great deal of wit Questioned by one editor about the success of the rural commune program he noted that the group was scheduled to visit a commune and smilingly observed that the one that waa to be shown would undoubtedly be a success ful operation Later in die interview he agreed to let the editors visit a second commune whose 'production record as good At the beginning of the interview Teng requested that he not be quoted directly so that the discussion could be free Otherwise he said it would be necessary for him to edit his statements-On behalf of the editors Patterson agreed to the request Chinese antipathy toward the Soviet Union was dear throughout the interview Teng said the Chinese did not envision world peace in the next generation but he pictured a third world war as highly likely He said that such a war could be started by either the United States or (he Soviet Union but that he believes the Russians were a much greater threat Using an argument that sounded at times like the one used by American advocates of strong US military might Teng said the Soviet Union has a clear advantage over the United States in conventional weapons and is approaching UJ5L strength in nuclear weapons In addition he said the Soviet military strategy is basically offensive while American strategy is defensive He said that the most likely areas for hostilities are in Western Europe or the Mideast both of which he said he considered Soviet spheres of interest He said he doubted that the Russians would attack China even though he said a million Soviet troops are stationed an the Chinese border But he said China was ready to fight if such an attack did occur He noted that a massive underground air raid shelter construction program has been under way in China since 1969 spurred by concern about Soviet intentions During the interview Teng also made these points: China would agree to participate in talks on nuclear weapons only if the subject was how to destroy existing weapons rather than limiting further production China favors peaceful reunification of Korea to the Communist government of Kim II Sung but it would not intervene to achieve such a goal He said that Korean unification was a Korean affair and that the situation was not parallel to Taiwan There would be little to talk to Ford about on the subject of Indochina Domestically No 1 priority is to continue to develop food grain and atari production He also rated developing oil resources as a major priority economic goal is to achieve by the end of the century a living standard and industrial strength relatively dose to that now existing in the West The Chinese are not neglecting research in their educational institutions but school theory must always be related to practical work The country was still in an experimental stage in its educational approaches Critics contend that China has rejected advanced research and study in favor of moving students into practical work position on Taiwan emerged dearly in conversations with several officials here: The island off' its coast to which Chiang Kai-shek fled in 1949 is historically part of China and it must once again be part of China These officials say that full normal- izatian of relations with the United States is a separate though not unrelated issue to reunification of Taiwan with the mainland Their conditions for normalization are these: Removal of all American troops from Taiwan severance of American diplomatic relations with Taiwan and renunciation of US agreements with Taiwan mil- itarily in the event of attack At that point in the Chinese view foil diplomatic relations could be achieved with the United States Tai- wan one highly placed official said would then be another question wary The Chinese people are able to solve this question themselves How China will liberate Taiwan is entirely a Chinese the of- -ficial said He added have faith in the possibility of reunification by peaceful But Teng in -todayV interview stressed that Cbina was in favor of peaceful unification in i pnfatiplaiVeti hetbo saidUhat fbrtimi' sense suggested that suctf a possibility wa not UPI Photo A US Air Forca officer rushes to assist him Beijing Duck? Combined News Services Tokyo Peking will become and Chairman Mao name in standard Roman spellings to be adopted by China The new system aimed at spelling Chinese ideographs as they are pronounced will be inaugurated Sept 1 Kyodo news service reported from Ming China will use the spellings for people and place names when it issues passports and other documents for use abroad and in printing travel tickets magazines for foreign circulation and news distributed in English in western countries Chinese words are spelled under the qysfero1 devised by a missionary scholar in the 19th Century It has saver been a reliable guide to Chinese pronunciation The aim of the 1 GUnese is to bring the western spelling into closer harmony with the Chinese actually pronounce the words iA 4.