"People's China" is one of the latest offsprings of the Communist propaganda machine--this time from Red China. The magazine, which purports to be independent, is published by the Foreign Press in Peking and aimed for foreign consumption.

Issued twice a month since last January, "People's China" contains little new material. It attacks the West directly and by inference in each of its 11 articles and two editorials. America still "unleashes wars of aggression" against the free peoples of the earth, and only the Communist countries still contain these "free peoples."

The August 1 issue just reached "people's bookstands" in the United States but the timeless literature could come from any of the issues.

In the lead editorial, the editors praise the People's Liberation Army on that group's first birthday. They call on it to help China which has "suffered a century of ravages and destruction by the feudalist-imperialist forces."

The second editorial says "The U.S. imperialists and their chief satellite, the Attlee government, have learned nothing good from their disastrous reverses in Korea."

The first article follows this general tone. It again congratulates the PLA for "overthrowing the dark rule of imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucratic capitalism." A slightly slanted version of the Communist Party's history in China ensues.

The most startling feature of this issue, however, comes in the special supplement included in pamphlet form. Termed "Documents on the Cease-Fire and Armistice Negotiations in Korea," the booklet contains complete notes exchanged by Chinese and United Nations' negotiators before and during the first truce talks in July. The editors intended it to show, according to the introduction, how the U.N. "flouted the people's will and pushed the armed invasion of Korea." It actually points up the Communists' concern over the trend of the war, and their anxiety to end it as soon as possible without losing face.

At one point, General Nam II includes Britain and the United States among the "peace loving nations of the world." The rapid U.N. acceptance of Chinese terms for a meeting place and agenda stunned the Chinese who expected to use our refusal for propaganda. General Ridgway's anger when newsmen were barred from Kaesong, and the Reds' quick agreement to reverse their stand and allow the press entry, all reveal the Reds' confusion and worry.

"People's China" contains pure propaganda from the woodcuts to the letters column. It makes satisfying reading for Communists, and interesting skimming for anyone. More important, it gives a sharp picture of the kind of propaganda the U.N. has to fight if it ever hopes to win the Chinese people to the cause of democracy.