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China Art Tour Canned By U.s.

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
April
Year
1975
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    It seems that no sooner does the US sign an agreement than it turns right around and reneges on it. Chinese and US rapprochement is showing new signs of Strain over the attempted US censorship of a song to be performed by the Performing Arts Troupe of China, which was to have visited the US from March 2l to April 27.

    The song in question was "People of Our Own Brothers" and expressed the profound sentiments of the Chinese people for the unification of their homeland.

   The attempted censorship by the US goes against both the spirit and the letter ot the Sino/US Joint Communique of February 28,1972 and signed by Dick Nixon. The Joint Communiqué established the cultural exchange program between China and the US. In the same Communique the US declared, "The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain that there is but one China and that Taiwan is part of China. The United States does not challenge that position."

    So why can't the Chinese play their tune? "Dot, Dot, Diddy, Dot, Dot, Dash. Damned if I know."