China Masses Troops

The big news on the foreign policy front this morning is that that the Communist Chinese have massed up to 150,000 troops of the Chinese “People’s Liberation Army” on the Chinese border with North Korea. We gather this from a dispatch of the Agence France-Presse, which cited Hong Kong’s Sunday Morning Post and Hong Kong’s Chinese-language Sing Tao Daily. “Large troop movements and new military barracks have also been seen in the border towns of Hanchun, Tumen, Kaishan, Sanhe, and Baijing, while air force jets have frequently been seen flying over the capital Yanji,” about some 25 miles from the border, the report said. To put the matter in perspective, 150,000 is 20,000 more troops than America now has in Iraq.