Lucian W. Pye, in Interna-for China? tional Security (Summer 1979), The MIT
Press (Journals), 28 Carleton St., Cam- bridge, Mass. 02142.
Since their break with Moscow in the early 1960s, the communist Chinese have been practicing "Chicken Little" diplomacy, writes Pye, a political scientist at MIT.
They have issued shrill warnings regarding Soviet intentions, charg- ing, in effect, "that NATO is about to be tested and is likely to be found wanting, that Japan should prepare more...