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I paid a courtesy call on Mr. Chang Shu, the First Secretary and temporary Charge d'Affaires of the Chinese Embassy today. Most of the conversation was about generalities and is not worth recording but Chang Shy mentioned that an Ambassador would shortly be appointed to Baghdad as part of the continuing process of re-establishment of diplomatic links at the higher level after the Cultural Revolution.
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Chang Shu himself has been back in Peking for some time and only returned to take up his post as Chargé d'Affaires a month ago.
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In his letter 5/56 of 23 September to George Kalden, Kerr saked whether there ware my particular pointe om which we should welcome commit from your ocousional Chinese contacto. The following points ure of special current interest to us, sad are subjects on which you may be able to elicit useful comment.
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(a) Why will the Chinesa net accommodate Ruosion wishes
in the Khabarovsk azon, which norms to be the crux of the boundary dispute? Do they have a specifie economie interest in this area, or is it a matter of principle on which accommodation would advarsely affast important interests elsewhere in their orders?
(b) would the Chiasse be prepared to reach: a solution on di.
puted arons based on the mtual coding of territory in which the other side hare an co...nomic or strategic interest ("island swapping")! (50e point 3 of part 5 of the Chiness document on the Sino-Soviet frontier published on 6 Cetober).
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3. what trade matters are sufficiently important to be a subject of talks between Kosygin and Chou En-lai, and to be mentioned in the Chinese statement of 7 Getober" specifically, is it a matter of:
(1) technical back-up/additional mahinery/replacements
for Soviet pluits und equipment sold in the past?
(11) produsers' goods which arennot obtainable elsewhere
8.g. oil produetz, minerale:
(111) aircraft?
Do the Chinese regard the soviet Union as the only available source of sircraft to expend their domestic sertides or open an international airline?
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What is the Chinese attitude to East Zuropean comtries and Partios (we were struck by the presence of a Csech at the dinner party referred to in kerr's letter of 25 September) ↑ Whinese contime to pretend to the leadership of the existing world conmmist movement, or promote relations with individual East Europeʊn statas ca a bilateral basis? What are the prospects for a new independent communist international, as apparently advocated by Comrade Hill? An interesting document in this context is a People's Daily article published as XCXA item 090905 *Karxist-Leninist revolutionary farces san, ot be vanquished by abuse', which I am afraid we have not previously reported. It is an interesting attack on Areshner's reference during the June conference of commumist parties to "elements bostils to commniss", It included the following passages:
"a thorough break must be sade with, and a resolute struggle
must be enged against revisionisa..........without such a break with and struggle against opportunim, there can be no development of Marxism and the international commist movement....". "It is the demand of the times, the danand of the revolution and the demand of the people that revolutionaries within those soummist parties and workers' parties whose leadership has been usurped by the revisionists, rmagades and scabs and which have degenLOZ VAL should breek away from such parties in rebellion against revisioniss and re-establish genuine revolutionary parti-c of the proletariat.
5. What is the order of Chinese domestie priorities? Where doss higher education stand in these priorities, and are the universities likely to reopen in 19707 How does the present state of the party and state bureaucracies compare with that existing before the cultural Revolution. will a ner stata constitution be necessary; ssbodying, for instance, the revolutionary committeos as the new state organs:
6. Recent Chinese statements on the U.8.A, imply that the Chinese would respond to any American change of policy. How would China view a withdrawal of U.8. troepe from Taiwan,
7. Copies of this letter go to Mallaby in Eastern kuropean and Boviet Department, and to Boyd in Far Sastern Department.
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In view of your earlier interest I should perhaps describe a dinner I attended at the Chinese Embassy last week. The hostsvære an almost totally silent First Secretary, T'ang T'eng-yi and my very voluble friend Kr. Li Feng-lin, who is a Third Secretary, asoioted by three more junior members of the Embassy staff and the N.C.U.A. correspondent: my fellow guests a Czech, a Rumenien, a Yugoslav and a French diplomat, and the A.F.P. correspondent. Li Fong-lin dominated proceedings throughout, appeared to be enjoying himself inaonsely, and told me in an aside at one stage that he very much regretted that it had "only now become possible" to give such an entertainment in the Embassy. It was in fact rather an enjoyable ovening.
2. The A.F.P. correspondent had only just filed his story of forthcoming Bino/Soviet talke in Koscow, and he came in for a good deal of badinage about it, but our hosts were renially unwilling to comment on its veracity. Li Feng-lin did however make the valid point that A.F.P. acomed to find no dearth of Boviet or East European Bourooo willing to supply newsworthy items on the Dino/Soviet Bituation. He advanced the familiar (and probably corroct) theory that Soviet orricials choose as deliberato policy to issue through soni-official channels items of information/disinforzation designed to boost their "persistently reasonable" image with the Western press. I pointed out that on the evidence issued here a number of Western Journalists had concluded that the semipalatinok incident had otortod with a Soviet attack. ile dismissed this with the remark that the Ruosiana were not skilful enough to mislond overy correspondent, but wont on to say that he took my point: the Soviet posture was not invariably the same. Interestingly, he aitod as an example of an item released by the Russians with spinechilling intent the story of a possible Joviet pre-emptive strike against nuclear installatione in 3inkiang. According to him, this was first issued here, and then wrongly ascribed to the Americans. I oountored by naking whether the theory that the nuclear installations had alrendy boan removed to a safer distance from the frontier was not similarly officially inspired in Peking. "Not at all", he said, "the Indiane said it first, and I doubt if it's true",
3. Apart from this exchange, the only episodos worth noting were a short conversation on Sino/Soviet trade and an interesting remark about Chou's return from Hanoi, both of which we have already reported. I tried to extract an explanation for the differenos
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between the two communiques on the Chou/Kosygin talks, but was told repeatedly and firmly that, evidently, no communique had been agreed. (The theory (Peking telegram No. 534) that the Chinese unilaterally altered an agreed text, which seems to me very likely, was rejected out of hand). My hosts claimod to have no information at all about the content of the talks this could well be true, since the Embassy appeared at the time of the C.P.C. Congress to be about a week behind the course of events in China. Li Feng-lin did however say at one point that it would be interesting to see the turn-out of official Soviet guests at the Embassy on 1 October " since following Kosygin's visit the Russians might choose to appear in greater strength. It will indeed be interesting.
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4. I leave Moscow shortly for Rawalpindi, (where I am enjoined to call at once on the Chinese Mission,) but Li Peng-lin has twice checked that contact will be maintained here. He is himself due to return to Peking in Hay - he will have spent three years in Moscow without a break but since it seems fairly clear, particularly in view of his remark reported in paragraph 1, that a decision in favour of exchanges with us has been taken, I imagine that they will outlast him. You might therefore wish to consider whether there are any particular points which you would wish Gerald Clark to raiso apart from the obvious Sino/Soviet questions
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5. I am sending a copy of this letter to Christopher Wallaby in East European and Soviet Department.
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Sino-Soviet Border Talks
Please refer to my minute of 21 October giving particulars of some of the members of the Chinese delegation.
2.
NONA (English) gives the romanisation of the last named delegate as Wang Chin-ching and not Wang Ching-ching as given in the World Broadcast series. This suggests that this member is the former Second Secretary from the Embassy in Moscow who was among the Chinese diplomatic personnel who returned to China in February, 1967, after having been injured in an "attack" on the Embassy.
3. I attach an additional copy of this minute for Peking.
(F. Brewer)
Far Eastern Section, Research Department.
23 October, 1969.
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Mr. Orchard, Soviet Section, R.D. Mr. J.F. Ford.
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