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    "ocrText": "TOP SECRET\nReport to the President\nCHINA --- KOREA\nPART I - GENERAL STATEMENT\nChina's history is replete with examples of encroachment, arbitrary action, special\nprivilege, exploitation, and usurpation of territory on the part of foreign powers. Con-\ntinued foreign infiltration, penetration or efforts to obtain spheres of influence in China,\nincluding Manchuria and Taiwan (Formosa) could be interpreted only as a direct in-\nfringement and violation of China's sovereignty and a contravention of the principles of\nthe Charter of the United Nations. It is mandatory that the United States and those other\nnations subscribing to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations should combine\ntheir efforts to insure the unimpeded march of all peoples toward goals that recognize the\ndignity of man and his civil rights and, further, definitely provide the opportunity to ex-\npress freely how and by whom they will be governed.\nThose goals and the lofty aims of freedom-loving peoples are jeopardized today\nby\nforces as sinister as those that operated in Europe and Asia during the ten years leading\nto World War II. The pattern is familiar-employment of subversive agents; infiltration\ntactics; incitement of disorder and chaos to disrupt normal economy and thereby to under-\nmine popular confidence in government and leaders; seizure of authority without reference\nto the will of the people-all the techniques skillfully designed and ruthlessly implemented\nin order to create favorable conditions for the imposition of totalitarian ideologies. This\npattern is present in the Far East, particularly in the areas contiguous to Siberia.\nIf the United Nations is to have real effect in establishing economic stability and\nin\nmaintaining world peace, these developments merit high priority on the United Nations'\nagenda for study and action. Events of the past two years demonstrate the futility of ap-\npeasement based on the hope that the strongly consolidated forces of the Soviet Union will\nadopt either a conciliatory or a cooperative attitude, except as tactical expedients. Soviet\npractice in the countries already occupied or dominated completes the mosaic of aggres-\nsive expansion through ruthless secret police methods and through an increasing political\nand economic enslavement of peoples. Soviet literature, confirmed repeatedly by Com-\nmunist leaders, reveals a definite plan for expansion far exceeding that of Nazism in its\nambitious scope and dangerous implications. Therefore in attempting a solution to the\nproblem presented in the Far East, as well as in other troubled areas of the world, every\npossible opportunity must be used to seize the initiative in order to create and maintain\nbulwarks of freedom.\nNothwithstanding all the corruption and incompetence that one notes in China, it is\na certainty that the bulk of the people are not disposed to a Communist political and eco-\nnomic structure. Some have become affiliated with Communism in indignant protest\n4\nDECLASSIFIED\nE. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and S(D) or (E)\nDept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973\nBy\nTOP SECRET\nNLT. Hc , NARS Date 6-25-75"
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