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The original documents are located in Box 15, folder "People's Republic of China - State
Department Telegrams: To SECSTATE - NODIS (10)" of the Presidential Country Files for
East Asia and the Pacific at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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REF: TOKYO 12080
1. TOKYO REFTEL REPORTS THAT ON AUGUST 11 SOME MEMBERS
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OF CONGRESSIONAL STAFFDEL STOPPING OFF IN TOKYO AFTER
CHINA TRIP RELATED TO JAPANESE FONOFF OFFICIALS THE
HARD-LINE REMARKS ON THE TAIWAN QUESTION THAT VICE
FOREIGN MINISTER WANG HAI-JUNG HAD MADE TO THE STAFFDEL
JULY 28.
2. IT APPEARS THEREFORE THAT WANG'S REMARKS WILL BE
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IN THE NEWS EVEN SOONER THAN WE HAD SUPPOSED, AND IN
AN ESSENTIALLY ACCURATE VERSION INCLUDING THE NOOSE AND
BAYONET ISSUE. (NOTE HOWEVER THAT REFTEL HAS WANG
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REFERRING TO US TAKING OFF NOOSE "FORTHRIGHTLY"; SHE
ACTUALLY SAID "FORTHWITH".)
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3. WE RECOMMEND THAT TRANSCRIPT OF THE STAFFDEL'S CON-
VERSATION WITH WANG (PEKING 1430) AND OF CODEL SCOTT'S WITH
CHANG CHUN-CHIAO (PEKING 1283) BE PROVIDED TO AMEMBASSIES
TOKYO AND TAIPEI AND TO AMCONGEN HONG KONG, PERHAPS WITH
EXDIS RATHER THAN PRESENT NODIS CONTROL, PLEASE ADVISE.
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SUBJECT: CONGRESSIONAL STAFFDEL TRAVEL: THE TAIWAN ISSUE IN THE
PROVINCES
REF: (A) PEKING 1429, (B) PEKING 1580
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1. SUMMARY. DESPITE GENERAL EXPECTATION BY HOLT-CZARNECKI
STAFFDEL MEMBERS THAT CHINESE IN PROVINCES WOULD HAMMER AWAY
AT THE TAIWAN QUESTION A LA WANG HAI-JUNG, THE ISSUE ALO E
ONLY IN PASSING OR IN THE CONTEXT OF "CULTURAL" PERFORMANCES.
END SUMMARY.
2. THE HOLT-CZARNECKI DELEGATION DEPARTED PEKING FOR THE
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PROVINCES ON JULY 29 AFTER SUFFERING TWO SHOCKS: THE EARTH-
QUAKE, AND THE UNEXPECTEDLY TOUGH LINE ON TAIWAN DELIVERED
BY VICE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG HAI-JUNG (REF A). BUT IN THE
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PROVINCES THERE WERE NO FURTHER FORMAL POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS
AND THE PRIME TOPIC OF POLITE CNVERSATION WAS THE EARTH-
QUAKE, NOT THE CONDITIONS OF NORMALIZATION (REF B),
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3, ON THE DELEGATION'S FIRST FULL DAY OUT OF PEKING
(7/30), A CHILDREN'S GROUP INCLUDED IN ITS PROGRAM
THE SONG "TAIWAN COMPATRIOTS ARE OUR FLESH AND BLOOD
BROTHERS" WHICH ENDS WITH AN EXPRESSION OF DETERMIN-
TION OF "LIBERATE" TAIWAN. (COMMENT: INCLUSION OF
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THIS SONG IN PROGRAMS FOR AMERICAL VISITORS IS QUITE
USUAL.) FOLLOWING IMMEDIATELY UPON THIS, THE DELEGA-
SECRET
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TION WAS INVITED TO REVIEW A FULL-DRESS DRILL IN
BLISETERING HEAT BY THE COMMUNE'S ARMED MILITIA. STILL
RECOILING AT THE VICE FOREIGN MINISTER'S NOOSE-AND-
BAYONETS ANABYPY, SEVERAL DELEGATION MEMBERS SAW IN
THIS CONJUNCTION OF ITEMS A NONE-TOO-SUBTLE MESSAGE.
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4. TAIWAN WAS NOT AGAIN MENTIONED, HOWEVER, UNTIL A
VISIT ON AUGUST 3 TO THE 179TH INFANTRY DIVISION BASED
IN THE SUBURBS OF NANKING. AND THERE THE CHINESE TOOK
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A STANDARD, NOT PARTICULARLY BELLICOSE LINE. ASKED
ABOUT THE DIVISION'S MISSION, THE CHIEF OF STAFF
RESPONDED: -"SINCE WE ARE PART OF A FIELD ARMY, OUR
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PRIMARY MISSION IS COMBAT. TO WIPE OUT AGRESSION
BY IMPERIALISM AND THE SOVIET REVISIONISTS ... AND
OUR TAIWAN PROVINCE IS NOT YET LIBERATED.'
5. TWO SONGS CONCERNING TAIWAN THE AFOREMENTIONED
ONE AND ANOTHER ENTITLED "TAIWAN'S PEOPLE ARE HOPING
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FOR LIBERATION" WERE PERFORMED AT A SHANGHAI CONCERT
ON THE EVENING OF AUGUST 8. HERE THERE MUST BE A
STRONG PRESUMPTION OF DELIBERATE ORCHESTRATION FOR
THE BENEFIT OF THE VISITORS. TREMENROUS
APPLAUSE ISSUED FORTH FROM THE CHINESE MEMBERS
OF THE AUDIENCE AS THE EVENING'S STAR PERFORMER SANG
THE FIRST FEW BARS OF HER FINAL -"TAIWAN COMPATRIOTS
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ARE OUR FLESH AND BLOOD BROTHERS. " FOLLOWING THE PER-
FORMANCE, SEVERAL OF THE CHINESE HOST-ESCORTS POINTEDLY
ASKED HOW DELEGATION MEMBERS HAD ENJOYED THE SHOW--
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ESPECIALLY THE MAIN SINGER AND HER RENDITION OF THE
TAIWAN SONG. (BY PRIOR AGREEMENT THE DELEGATION HAD
APPLAUDED NEITHER TAIWAN COMPOSITION.)
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6. THROUGHOUT THE TRIP VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE CHINESE
HOST ORGANIZATION QUESTIONED DELEGATION MEMBERS UN-
INFORMALLY ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION POLITICS, THE
OUTLOOK FOR NOVEMBER, THE MOOD OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,
AND CURRENT THINKING AT VARIOUS LEVELS ABOUT NORMALI-
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ZATION. WE ARE UNAWARE OF ANY IN-DEPTH CONVERSATIONS
ON THE TAIWAN ISSUE.
7. DESPITE THIS RATHER LOW-KEY FOLLOWUP TO THE VICE
SECRET
NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
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FOREIGN MINISTER'S PRESENTATION, THE DELEGATION WILL
DOUBTLESS DEVOTE CONSIDERABLE SPACE IN ITS FINAL REPORT
TO ITS FINDINGS ON THE TAIWAN QUESTION. IF THEIR
PRIVATE COMMENTS TO US ARE A GUIDE, THE REPORT MAY
WELL HIGHLIGHT THE GREAT DISTANCE BETWEEN THE RESPEC-
TIVE POSITIONS OF THE US AND THE PRC.
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RECOMMEND DEPARTMENT PASS HONG KONG, MOSCOW, TAIPEI AND TOKYO
E.0.11652: XGDS-3
TAGS: PFOR, PINT, CH, US, OVIP (SCHLESINGER, J'MES)
REFS: A) PEKING 1776 B) PEKING 1948
1, BEGIN INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY
SCHLESINGER AND FOUR MEMBERS OF HIS DELEGATION (PERLE, WHITSON,
WEST AND BENOIT) MET FOR TWO HOURS AND FORTY MINUTES ON THE
AFTERNOON OF SEPTEMBER 28 WITH PRC PERMIER AND PARTY FIRST
VICE CHAIRMAN HUA KUO-FENG. THE CHINESE SIDE ALSO INCLUDED
FOREIGN MINISTER CHIAO KUAN-HUA, MFA AMERICAN AND OCEANIAN
DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR LIN PING, AND NANCY TANG (INTERPRETER).
ACCORDING TO AN ORAL BRIEFING FROM NOTES BY ONE DELEGATION
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MEMBER (SUPPLEMENTED BY OBSERVATIONS FROM SCHLESINGER AND
OTHERS), THE SESSION WAS DOMINATED BY AN EXCH. NGE OF VIEWS
ON GLOBAL STRATEGY. FOLLOWING IN THE MAIN FOREIGN MINISTER CHI 0'S
STANDARD BRIEF (REF A), HUA SCORED SOVIET
EXPANSIONISM, CONDEMNED THE "MUNICH MENTALITY, " AND
CALLED FOR A "POOLING OF EFFORTS" TO CONTAIN MOSCOW.
THIS VIEW, HUA ADDED, HAD BEEN COMMUNICATED BY THE CHINESE
LEADERSHIP TO PRESIDENT NIXON AND SECRETARY Y SSINGER. HUA
INDICATED CHINESE SATISFACTION AT PRESIDENT FORD'S DROPPING
OF THE WORD "DETENTE"; HE CITED APPROVINGLY THE POLICIES
EXEMPLIFIED AND PROMOTED BY THE WEST GERMAN CDU, FRENCH CHIEF
OF STAFF MERY, THE "PRESENT GOVERNMENTS" OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW
ZEALAND, THE BRITISH OPPOSITION LEADER THATCHER; BUT HE
DECLASSIFIED
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STATE DEPT, GUIDELINES TO 9/27/02
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SCATHINGLY DENOUNCED MIKI-MIYAZAWA POLICIES TOWARD THE SOVIET
UNION. HUA DID NOT RAISE SINO-US BILATERAL RELATIONS, NEVER
MENTIONED TAIWAN, AND EVIDENCED NO CURIOSITY ABOUT THE US PRESIDENTI
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ELECTION. NO LIGHT WHATSOEVER WAS SHED ON THE PRC LEADERSHIP OR
HUA'S ROLE WITHIN IT, THOUGH SCHLESINGER AND OTHERS WERE IMPRESSED
BY HUA'S AURA OF COMMAND AND APPARENT INTELLIGENCE. END INTRODUCTION
AND SUMMARY.
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2. THE INVITATION. HUA OPENED THE SESSION BY REVIEWING
THE BACKGROUND OF THE CHINESE INVITATION TO DR. SCHLESINGER.
THE NEW SINO-US RELATIONSHIP HAD BECOME POSSIBLE THROUGH THE
"WISE DECISION OF CHAIRMAN MAO"; PRESIDENT NIXON, HUA ADDED,
HAD "ALSO MADE HIS CONTRIBUTION. IN THE CONTEXT OF A NEW
RELATIONSHIP EVOLVING "BY TWISTS AND TURNS, = CHAIRMAN MAO
HAD PERSONALLY DIRECTED IN 1974 THAT THEN-DEFENSE SECRETARY.
SCHLESINGER BE INVITED TO VISIT CHINA. (SCHLESINGER SAYS THAT
HE FIRST LEARNED OF THIS INVITATION FROM PRCLO CHIEF HUANG
CHEN JUST BEFORE DEPARTING FOR CHINA. THROUGHOUT HIS TRIP
CHINESE OFFICIALS ALLUDED OFTEN TO "CHAIRMAN MAD'S INVITATION.")
WHEN SCHLESINGER LEFT OFFICE IN 1975, CHAIRMAN MAO INDICATED
THAT THE INVITATION SHOULD REMAIN OPEN.
3. COOPERATION AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION. HUA EMPHASIZED
THE INSATIABLE EXPANSIONIST APPETITE OF THE SOVIET
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UNION NOW MORE GREEDY THAN THE OLD TSARSM WITHOUT CALLING
FOR A FORMAL PACT OR SYSTEMATIC COOPERATION AMONG COUNTRIES
OPPOSED TO SOVIET HEGEMONY, HUA IMPLICITLY ARGUED FOR AN
ANTI-SOVIET TNETNTE INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES -- A "POOLING
OF OUR EFFORTS TOGETHER AGAINST THE POLAR BEAR. = WITH THIS
IN MIND:
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--THE CHINESE LEADERSHIP HAD PROPOSED TO PRESIDENT NIXON "A
LINE" RUNNING THROUGH CHINA, JAPAN, PAKISTAN, IRAN, THE MIDDLE
EAST, THE THIRD WORLD, WESTERN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES
"TO RESIST SOVIET EXPANSIONISM."
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-CHAIRMAN MAO HAD "TRIED TO PERSUADE DR. KISSINGER TO STAY
IN JAPAN" AND "TO WORK WITH JAPAN." CHUA DID NOT SPECIFY THE
TIME FRAME, BUT DELEGATION MEMBERS INFERRED THAT HE MEANT
1973.) WITH RESPECT TO JAPAN, HUA CONCLUDED, RELATIONS WITH
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THE UNITED STATES CAME FIRST AND WITH CHINA SECOND.
--CHINESE LEADERS HAD "URGED"SECRETARY KISSINGER TO "HELP"
PAKISTAN "WHEN HE WAS HERE" -- BUT "HIS RECENT TRIP INDICATES
THAT HE WAS UNSUCCESSFUL.
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--THE CHINESE HAD "URGED" THE UNITED STATES "TO USE BOTH HANDS"
IN THE MIDDLE EAST, BZO DEVELOP RELATIONS WITH ARAB COUNTRIES
WHILE MAINTAINING ITS TIES WITH ISREAL. HUA EMPHASIZED
THAT THE CHINESE BELIEVED "COMPLETE"SUPPORT OF ISRAEL WOULD
NOT BE IN AMERICAN INTERESTS.
THOUGH ALL OF THESE EVENTS WERE DESCRIBED IN THE PAST TENSE,
HUA LEFT THE IMPRESSION THAT CHINESE THINKING HAS NOT ALTERED,
THAT THIS SORT OF INFORMAL ENTENTE TO CONTAIN SOVIET
EXPANSIONISM IS THE CORRECT AND ONLY VIABLE INTERNATIONAL
STRATEGY.
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4. STATE OF THE WORLD. HUA DELIVERED A TOUR DIHORIZON FOCUSSIKG
ON THE STATE OF PLAY IN THE CONTEMPORARY ANTI-SOVIET STRUGGLE:
HUA ADHERED CLOSELY TO FOREIGN MINISTER CHIAO'S STANDARD BRIEF
AND DIFFERED FROM PUBLIC CHINESE POSITIONS ONLY IN THE
SOMETIMES ACIDUOUSLY CANDID DISCUSSION OF WORLD PERSONALITIES,
5. HUA DERIDED THE "SONNENFELDT DOCTRINE, CRITICIZE THE
HELSINKI ACCORDS AND CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION
IN EUROPE AS CREATING THE "FALSE IMPRESSION" THAT THERE
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EXISTS EUROPEAN SECURITY, AND CONDEMNED ALL AS EVIDENCE OF
"MUNICH THINKING" -- A CAPITULATION TO THE SOVIET UNION
WHICH IS "OUT TO FINLANDIZE"EUROPE. (TO THIS, DR. SCHLESINGER
SUGGESTED THAT "POLANDIZE" MIGHT BE A MORE ACCURATE
CHARACTERIZATION OF SOVIET INTENTIONS.) JUST AS IT WAS
IMPORTANT TO CRITICIZE AND EXPOSE THE "MUNICH MENTALITY,"
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so THE WESTERN EUROPEAN NATIONS SHOULD NOT BE "COMPLETELY RELIANT"
ON THE US, FOR THIS WOULD SURELY ERODE THEIR SELF-CONFIDENCE.
6. HUA SPOKE CONTEMPTUOUSLY OF JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER MIKI'S
POLICIES AND OBSERVED ACIDLY THAT FORMER FORE GN MINISTER
MIYAZAWA "WOULD HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF SURRENDER HAD HE BEEN A
CHINESE LEADER.' HUA MADE CLEAR THAT HE REFERRED TO THE
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MIKI-MIYAZAWA STANCE ON THE ANTI-HEGEMONY CLAUSE SPECIFICALLY
AND TO JAPANESE POLICIES VIS-A-VIS THE SOVIET UNION MORE
GENERALLY. ASKED BY DR. SCHLESINGER IF MIYAZAWA'S TOUR OF
THE NORTHERN ISLANDS AREA DID NOT CONSTITUTE A HARDENED --
AND THEREFORE IMPROVED -- JAPANESE POSTURE, HUA REPLIED IN
THE NEGATIVE, TERMING THE INSPECTION "ONLY A SHOW. WITHOUT
ELABORATING, HUA INDICATED THAT THE CHINESE FAVOR "DEVELOPMENT"
OF THE JAPANESE SELF-DEFENSE FORCE.
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7. ELSEWHERE HUA SAW ENCOURAGING GLOBAL TRENDS:
--PRESIDENT FORD PUBLICLY DROPPED THE WORD "PETENTE" FROM HIS
VOCABULARY.
--SOVIET PLUMPING FOR AN AISAN COLLECTIVE SECURITY SYSTEM
HAD HAD "NO EFFECT. # MOREOVER, HUA EXTOLLED "THE PRESENT
GOVERNMENTS" OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND FLR REMAINING
"VIGILANT" AGAINST THE SOVIET THREAT.
-IN WEST GERMANY, OSTPOLITIK HAD GRADUALLY "FALLEN APART."
HUA PRAISE THE CDU FOR ITS "LUCID" STANCE ON THE QUESTION
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OF RELATIONS WITH MOSCOW.
-IN THE UNITED KINDGOM, CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER THATCHER
HAD "PUT THE MATTER (OF POLICY TOWARD THE SOVIETS) FORWARD
VERY ACUTELY."
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--FRENCH CHIEF OF STAFF MERY HAD POINTED OUT DURING HIS JUNE
VISIT TO CHINA THAT THE FRENCH DEFENSE EFFORT WAS INCREASING.
8. CHINESE SELF-RELIANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. HUA DELIVERED
AN IMPASSIONED DEFENSE OF CHINESE SELF-RELIANCE ALONG FAMILIAR
LINES: IMPERIALISTS HAD INFLICTED OPIUM UPON CHINA, CHINA WAS
ALL-TOO-ACCURATELY CHARACTERIZED AS THE "SICK MAN OF ASIA, "
AND CHINESE SELF-CONFIDENCE WAS CONSEQUENTLY IMPAIRED. BUT
FOLLOWING 27 YEARS OF "EARTHSHAKING CHANGES, THE CHINESE
PEOPLE HAD SHED THEIR INFERIORITY COMPLEX AND BEGUN TO
BELIEVE THAT THEY COULD ACHIEVE WHAT FOREIGN COUNTRIES HAD.
YET CHINESE SELF-CONFIDENCE WAS STILL INCOMPLETE EVEN TODAY.
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FOR THIS REASON, AND BECAUSE THE POST-LIBERATION
"YOUNGER GENERATION" COULD NOT WHOLLY COMPREHEND THE SITUATION
EXISTING BEFORE 1949, THE CHINESE LEADERSHIP ATTACHED A
HIGH PRIORITY TO EDUCATING THE MASSES CONSTANTLY IN THE
MEANING OF "SELF-RELIANCE. THE CHINESE, HUA SAID, ARE
STRIVING "TO BUILD A MODERN CHINA BY THE END OF THE
CENTURY. = (DELEGATION MEMBERS AGREE THAT HUA DID NOT
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ADD THE WORD "SOCIALIST" HERE BEFORE CHINA AS IN THE STANDARD
FORMULATION.) IN SO DOING, THE FOCAL POINT OF DEVELOPMENT WOULD
BE THE SMALL TOWNS IN THE CHINESE INTERIOR, NOT THE
DEVELOPED URBAN CENTERS.
9. IMPRESSIONS OF HUA. DR. SCHLESINGER AND HIS DELEGATION
WERE FAVORABLY IMPRESSED BY HUA. EXPECTING A RATHER
UNSOPHISTICATED AND TENATIVE APPARATCHIK UNSCHOOLED IN THE
INTRICACIES OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, THEY DETECTED INTELLIGENCE,
CONFIDENCE, AND AN AURA OF LEADERSHIP. CHINESE OFFICIALS
PRESENT TREATED HUA WITH DEFERENCE AND RESPECT (THE PRECEDING
DAY, DR. SCHLESINGER OBSERVED, SOME OF THE SAME OFFICIALS
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HAD REGARDED YEH CHIEN-YING WITH "VENERATION") (REF B),
HUA HAD MASTERED HIS BRIEF, REFERRING RARELY TO THE TEXT
BEFORE HIM BUT LOOKING TO FOREIGN MINISTER CHIAO FOR
OCCASIONAL GUIDANCE WHEN REQUIRED TO ADDRESS UNANTICIPATED
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QUESTIONS.
10. HUA OFFERED NO COMMENT ON THE CHINESE INTERNAL SCENE, HIS
OWN POSITION WITHIN THE LEADERSHIP, OR CHINESE PLANS FOR THE
FORTHCOMING NATIONAL DAY.
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TECHIMPORT (ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR 1500 OCTOBER 14) FOR
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Re discussion with diplomat
CREATION DATE
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NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER. PRESIDENTIAL
COUNTRY FILES FOR EAST ASIA AND THE
PACIFIC
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People's Republic of China - State
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SECRET
LERARY GERALD R.YURD
NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
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OF STATE
Department of State
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TELEGRAM
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4. I HAVE YOUDE'S SUBSTANCE OF TOKYO'S 16580 CONCERNING
CHEN YI-SUN AND ASAHI ARTICLE ON PEKING-TAIWAN TALKS AND
ZODIU
ALSO INFORMED HIM OF VICE FOREIGN MINISTER YANG HSI-
KUAN'S DENIAL TO POPPLE IN TAIPEI CTAIPEI'S 7464).
5. OUR INITIAL TENTATIVE CONCLUSIONS ARE (1) IT IS VERY
UNLIKELY THAT CCK HAS SENT OFFICIAL DELEGATION TO PEKING
EVEN THOUGH PRC WOULD WELCOME VISIT, (2) PEKING LEADER-
SHIP MAY WELL HAVE "OUSTED OFF" TAIWAN ISSUE AND THROUGH
CHEN YI-SUN - AND OTHERS MAY BE MOUNTING A PROPAGANDA
CAMPAIGN TO UNDERCUT TAIWAN'S SUPPORT IN THE LINITED STATES.
MY OTHER COLLEAGUES IN THE
PEKING DIPLOMATIC COMMUNITY HAVE DISCARDED THE ASAHI
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STORY ON PEXING-TAIRAN TALKS AS GROUNDLESS RUMOR.
7. DEPARTMENT MAY WISH TO REPEAT THIS TELEGRAM TO TAIPEI.
GATES
SECRET
R.FORD
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