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1. TOKYO ~EFTEL RE PORTS THA T ON AUGUST 11 SOME MEMBERS OF CONGRESSIONAL STAFFDEL ST OPP I NG GFF IN TOKYO AF TER CHINA TRIP HELATEO TO JAPANESE FONOFF OFFI CI AL S THE HA RD•LINE REMARKS 0~ THE TAIWAN QUEST I ON THAT VIC E FOREIGN MlNlSTER ~ ANG HAI• J UNG HAD MADE TO THE STAFFDEL JULY 28 .

2. I T APPEARS THEHEFORE THAT WANG ' S REMARK S WILL BE I N THE NEWS EVEN SOONER THAN WE HAD SUPPOSED, AND IN AN ESSE NTIALLY ACCURATE VERSION 1 CLU('I ; G THE NOOSE AND BA Y O~ET ISSUE . (NOTE HOWEVER T~AT REFTEL HAS ~ANG REFERRI~G TO US TAKING OFF NOOSE "FOR THRIGHTLY "J SHE ACTUALLY SAID "FORTHW I TH" .)

3. WE RECOMMEND THAT TRANSCRIPT OF THE STAFFDEL ' S CON• VERSAT!ON WITh WANG (PEKING 1430 ) AND OF COOEL SCOTT ' S WI TH CHANG CHUN•CHIAO (PE ~ ING 1283) tiE PROVIDED TO AMEMBASSIES TOKYO A~D TAIPEI AND TO AMCONGEN HONG KONG 1 PERHAPS WITH EXOIS RATHER THAN PkESENT NOOIS CONTROL , PLEASE •oVISc . GATES

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1. SUMMARY. DESPIT! GENERAL EXPECTATION BY HOLT·CZAR~ECKI STAFFDEL MEMBERS THAT CHINESE IN PROVINCES WOULD HAMMeR AWAY AT THE TAI~AN QUESTION A LA WANG HAI•JUNG , THE ISSUE ALO E ONLY IN PASSING OR IN THE CONTEXT OF PCULTURAL" PERFORMANCES. END SUMt;,ARY,

2. THE HOLT•CZAR~ECKI DELEGATION DEPARTED PEKING FOR THE PROVINCES ON JULY 29 AFTER SUFFERING THO SHOCKS: THE EARTH• QUAKE, AND THE UNEXPECTEDLY TOUGH LINE ON TAIWAN DELIVERED BY VICE FOREIGN MINISTER WANG ~AI•JUNG (REF A). ~UT IN THE PROVINCES THERE WERE NO FURTHER FORMAL POLIT!CAL DISCUSSIONS AND THE PRIME TOPIC OF POLITE CNVERSATIUN WAS THE tARTH• QUAKE, NOT THE CONDITIONS OF ~ORMALIZATlON (REF B).

3. ON THE OE~EGATIONIS FIRST FULL DAY OUT OF PEKING (7/30), A CHI~DREN 1 S GROUP I~CLUDED IN ITS PROGRAM THE SONG "TAIWAN COMPATRIOTS ARE OUR FLESH AND BLOOD BROTHERS" WHICH ENDS WITH AN EXPRESSION OF DETERMIN• TION OF "LibERATE" TAIWAN. (CO MMENT : I~CLUSION OF THIS SO~G I~ PROGRAMS FOR AMERICAL VISITORS IS QUITE USUAL.) FOLLOWING I MMEDIATELY UPON THIS, THE DELEGA•

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TION WAS INVITED TO REVIEW A FULL~DRESS DRILL IN BLISETERING HEAT ay THE COM MUNE'S A~MEO MILITIA. STILL RECOILI NG AT THE VICE FOREIGN MINISTER'S NOOSE•ANO• BAYO~ETS ANABYPY, S~VERAL DELEGATION MEMBERS SAW IN THIS CO NJUNCTION OF ITEMS A NONE•TOO•SUBTLE MESSAGE ,

4. TAI WAN WAS NOT AGAIN MENTIONED, HOWEVER, UNTIL A VISIT ON AUGUST 3 TO THE 179TH INfANTRY DIVISION BASED IN T~E SUBURBS OF NA NKING, AND THERE THE CHINESE TOOK A STA NDARD, NOT PARTICULA~LY BELLICOSE LINE, ASKED ABOUT THE DIVISIO~IS MISSION, THE CHI~F OF STAFF RESPONDEO: ·"SINCE WE ARE PART OF A FIELD ARMy, OUR PRIMARY ~ISSION IS COMBAT, • ,TO WIPE OUT AGRESSION By I MPERIALISM AND THE SOVIET REVISIONISTS , , , AND OUR TAI WAN PROVINCE IS NOT YET LibERATED , "

5. TWO SONGS CONCER~ING TAIWAN•·T~E AFOREMENTIONED ONE AND ANOTHER ENTITLED 11 TAIWANfS PEOPLE ARE HOPING 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 ARE OUR FLESH AND BLOOD BROTH~RS . " FOLLOWING THE PER ~ FORMANCE,SEVERAL OF THE CHINESE HOST-ESCORTS POINTEDLY ASKED HOW DELEGATIO~ MEMBERS HAD ENJOYED THE SHOW ~· ESPECIALLY THE MAIN SINGER AND HER RENDITION OF THE TAiwAN SONG. (BY PRIOR AGREEMENT THE DELEGATION HAD APPLAUDED NEITHER TAIWAN COMPOSITION,)

6. THROUGHOUT THE TRIP VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE CHINESE HOST ORGANIZATION QUESTIONED DELEGATION MEMBERS UN • INFQRMALLY ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION POLITICS, THE OUTLOOK FOR NOVEMBER, THE MOOD OF THE AMERICAN PEOP~E , AND CURRENT THINKING AT VARIOUS LEVELS ABOUT NORMA~I ~ ZATION, wE ARE UNAwARE OF ANY IN• DEPTH CONVERSATIONS ON THE TAIWAN ISSUE ,

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FOREIGN MINISTER'S PRESENTATION, THE DELEGATION WILL DOUBTLESS DEVOTE CONSIDERA8LE SPACE IN ITS FINAL REPORT TO ITS FINDINGS ON THE TAiriAN QUESTION. IF THEIR PRIVATE CO~MENTS TO US ARE A GUIDE, THE REPORT MAY WELL HIGHLIGHT THE GREAT DISTANCE BETWEEN THE RESPEC• TIVE POSITIONS OF THE US AND THE PRC. GATES

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1. 3EG I N I ~TRODUCTION ANn SUMMARY. FORMER OEFE~SE SECRETARY SCHkESlNGER AND FOUR MEMBERS OF HIS DELEGATION (P~RL.E, ~HIT8~N , WEST AND tiENOIT) MET FOR TWO HOURS AND FORTY MlNUTfS ON ThE AFTEqNOON OF SE?TEMeER 2P. WI TH PRC PERMIER AND PARTY FIR~T VIC~ CHAIRMAN NUA KuO~rENG . TH~ CMlNESE -IO~ AL~J .NC~~0EQ fOr.tE!Gt-l fo!II\!J.STER CHIAO KUAN•HliA, MFA ~Mf-."<lCAt~ AI'\JD OCc:.Af\oiAN DEPARTY:tNT O!kECTOR l.IN PIN~, AND NANCV TANG (INrtRPRETER)e ACCORDING TO AN ORAL oRIEl" ING FRCtl ~.on~s ~y ONE Ot.:.LEGATlO~ MEMBER (SUPPLEMENTED BV OBSE~VATIONS FRO~ SCHlESINGER AND OTHERa), THE SESSION wAS DOMINATED tiY AN EX~~. ~E Of VIEWS ON GLOB~L 3T~~TEGY. F~LLOwi~G IN THE M I~ FC~F IG N MI NISTER ~Hl ,,~ STANDARD dRIEF (RfF A), HUl SCOKED 50~ItT EXPA NSIONIS~, CONuEMtEO THE "MUNICH~~ TAI..ITYr " AND CAl. L E 0 F 0 k A '; P 0 0 l. IN G 0 F E F f 0 R T S ii T 0 C u N 1 A I ~l M 0 S C 0 W • THIS VIEW, HUA ADDED, HAD BEEN CO~MUNICAT~D BY THE CHINtSE LEADERSHIP TO PRESiuENT NIXON AND SECRETARY t.SSlNGE~ . HUA I NDICATED CHI NESE SATISFACTIO~ AT P RES IDE~T FORO ' S DROPPING OF T~E ~ORO "DET ENTE"; HF. C!TE.O APPROVINGi..'( Tr.E POLICIES EXEMPL.IftED -NO P~U~DTED rv Th~ ~ES T GER~ AN COU , FR~ ~H CH!~F OF STAF F MERY , THE '' PRESENT GOVERNMENTS" OF AUSTRAL I A AND NEW ZEAL.- ND , THE BRITISH OPP OSI TIO N LEADER THATCHER1 BUT HE

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SCATHI NGLY DENOUNCED MIKI· MIYAZA WA POLICI ES TOWA RD THf SOV I ET UNIO N. HUA DID NOT RAISE SI NO-US ~ !L ATERAL RELATIONS , NfVER MENTI ON ED TAIWAN, AND EVID EN CED NO CUR I OSITY ABOUT THE US PRESIOE,T L ELECTIO N, NO LIGHT ~H ATSOEVER WA S SHED ON THE PR C LEADERSHIP OR HUA'S ROLE WITHI N ITr THOUG H SCHLESINGER AND OTHERS WERE IMPRESSFC By HU A' S AURA OF COMM AND AND APPARENT I NTELLIGENCE . END INTRODUCTI AND SU MMAR Y,

2, THE I NV ITATION. HU A OPENED TH E SESS I ON BY REV I EWING TH E BACKGROUN D OF THE CHINESE I NV I TATION TO DR, SCHLESI~GER, THE NEW SIN O• US RtLATIONSHIP HAD BECOME POSSIBLE TH~OU~H THt " WI SE DECISION OF CHAIRMAN MAO " ; PRESIDENT NIXON , HUA ADDEO, HAD " ALSO MADE HIS CONTRIBUTION ." IN THE CO TEXT OF A NEW RELATIONSHIP EVOLVING "BV TWISTS AND TURNS," CHAIRMAN MAO HAD PERSONALLY DIRECTED I N 1974 THAT THE~·DErE~SE SECriETARY. SCHLESINGEP B~ I NV I TED TO VIS I T CHINA. ( SCHL~SINGER SAYS THAT HE FIRST LEARNED OF THI& INVITAllON FROM P~CLO CHIEF HUANG CHEN JUST B~FORE OEPARTI~G FOR CHINA, THROUGHOUT HIS TRIP CHINESE OFFICIALS ALLUDED OFTEN TO "CHAIRMAN MAO ' S INVITATI~~.") WHEN SCHLESINGER LEFT OFFICE IN 1975, CHAIRMAN MAO INDICATED THAT TH~ INVITATION SHOULD REMAIN OPEN .

3, COOPERATION AGAINST H~E SOVIET UNION. HUA c··pHASIZt:.D THE INSATlAoLE eXPANSIONIST APPETITE OF THE SOVIET UNION NOW ORf GRtEOY THA~ T~E OLD TSARSM t lTHOUT CALLING FOR A FOPMAL PACT OR SYSTEMATIC COOPERATION AMO\G CUUNTk!~S OPPOSED TO SOVIET HEGEMONY, HuA IMPLICITLY ARGUEO FOR Ah ANTI•SOV!ET TNETNTE INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES " • A upo~L!NG OF OUR EFFORTS TOGETHER AGAINST THE POLA~ StAN." WITH TNIS IN MIND :

· -THE CHINESE LEADERSHIP HAD PROPOSED TO PRESIDENT NrXON "A LINE " RUNNING THROUGH CHINA, JAPAN , PAKISTAN, IRAN, THE MIDDLE EAS T, THE THIRD ~ORLD , WEST~RN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES "TO RE SIST SOVI ET EXPAN SI ONISM ."

N~ C HAIRMAN MAO HAD "TRIED TO PERSUADE OR . KISSINGER TO STAY I N JA PAN " AND "TO WORK ~ITH JAPAN ." CHUA OIO NOT SPECIFY THE TI ME F~AME , BUT DEL~GAT I ON MEMBERS INFfRRED THAT rlE ~EANT ! 973 ,) WITH RfSPECT TO JAPAN , HUA CONCLUDED , RELA TIONS WITH

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THE UNITED STATES CAME FIRST AND WITH CHINA SECOND,

••CHINESE LEADERS HAD "U~GED"SECRtTARY KISSINGER TO "HELP" PAKISTA N "WHEN HE WAS HE~E" •w BUT "HIS RECENT TRIP INDICATES THAT HE WAS UNSUCCESSFUL."

~-THE CH!N~SE HAD "U RGED " THE UNITED STATES "TO USE BOTH HANDS " IN THE MIODLE EAST,BZO DEVELOP RELATIONS WITH ARAB COUNTRIES WHILE MAINTAINING I TS TIES WIT H I SREA L. HU A EMPHASIZED THAT THE CHI NESE BELIEVED "CO MPLE TE"SUPPORT OF ISRAEL WOULD NOT BE IN AMERICAN I NTEREST S.

THOUGH ALL OF THESE EVENTS ERE DESCRIBED IN THE PAST TENSE, HUA LEFT THE IMPRESSION THAT CHINESE THINKING HAS NOT ALTERED, THAT THIS SORT OF lNFORMAL ENTENTE TO COlTAIN SOVI~T EXP ANSION IS M IS THE CORRECT AND ONLY VIABLE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY.

4. STATE OF THE WORLD . HUA DELIVERED A TOUR D'~ORIZON FOCUSSIKG ON THE STATE OF PLAY IN TH~ CONTEMPORARY ANT!•SOVIET STHUGGLc: HUA ADHERED CLOSELY TO FOREIGN MINISTtR CkiAO'$ STA~OARD ~RIEf AND QlFFEREO FROM PUBLIC CHINESE POSITIONS ONLY IN TH~ SOMETI MES ACIOUOUSLY CA~DID DISCUSSION OF WORLD P~RSONA~ITIES.

5. HUA OEtHDEO THE "SONNENFELOT DOCTRINE., 11 CRITICIZE THE HELSINKI ACCORDS AND CD FERENCE ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE AS CREATING THE 11 FALSE IMPRESSION 11 THAT THERE EXISTS EUROPEAN SECURITY, AND CUNDEMNtD ALL AS EVIDENCE OF "MUNICH THI~KING" •• A CAP! lUL ATtUN TO THE SGVIET UN!O~ W H I C H I S 11 0 lJ T T 0 F I N L AN I I Z E '1 E U R 0 P E • ( T 0 T r1 I S , DR • S C H L E S I N G t R SU GGESTtD T~AT 11 POLA NDIZE " 1IGHT BE A MD E ACCUR-TE CHARACTERlZATlON Of SOVI .T INTENTIONS .) JUST AS IT WAS I MPORTANT TO CRITICIZE AND EXPOSE THE "MUNICH MENTALITY r 11

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6. HUA SPOKE CONTtMPTUOUSLY OF JAP ANESE PRIME ~INISTER MI~I'S POLICIES AND OBSERVED ACIDLY THAT FO~MER FORE.GN MI~ISTER MIVAZ A A " WOULD HAVE BEEN AC CUSED OF SURRENDER hAD HE BEE~ A CHI NESE LEADER." HUA MADE CLEAR THAT HE REFERRED TO THE MIKI·MIVAZAw4 ST.NCE ON THE ANTI•HEGEMONY CLAUSt SPECIFICALLY AND TO JAPANESE POLICIES VIS•A•VIS THE SOVIET UNION MORE GENERALLY. ASKED BY OR. SCHLESINGER IF MIYAZAWA ' S TOUR OF THE NORTH.ERN ISLANDS AREA DID NOT CONSTITUTE A HARCEN~O ~· AND THEREFORE IMPROVED •• JAPANESE POSTU~E, HUA REPL!EO !N THE NEGATIVE , TERMING THE INSPECTION "ONLY A SHOW." ~I T~OUT ELASOR~TINGr HUA INDICATED THAT THE CHI~ESE FAVOR "O~YELOPM~NT" OF THE JAPANESE SELf • DEFENSE FORCE.

7e ELSEWHERE HUA SA~ ENCOURAGING GLOBAL TREN~s:

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~-SOVIET PLUMPING FOR AN AISAN COLLECTIV~ SECURITY SVSTEM HAD HAD " NO EFFEC T." MD~~ov~R, HUA EXTOLLED "THE PREStNT GOV ERNMENTS " OF AUS TRAL IA AND NEW ZE4LANO FL~ REMAINING "VIGILANT" AG AINS T THE SOVIET THREAT,

•IN W~ST GERMANY, OSTPOLITI K HAD GRA DUA LLY "FALLEN APART." H U A P R A I S E THE C 0 U F 0 R I T S '1 L LJ C I 0 11 S T AN C E 0 N T H t: QUEST I 0 N

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OF RELATIONS WITH MOSCOW .

•I N THE UNITED KINOGO M, CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER THATCHER HAD "PUT THE MAT TER (OF POLICY TOWARD THE SOVIETS) FOR WARD VERY ACUTELY,"

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• "FRENCH CHIEF OF STAFF ~E~Y HAD POINTED OUT DURING HIS JUNE VISIT TO CHINA THAT THE FRENCH DEFENSE EFFORT WA S I NCREASING ,

s. CHINESE SELF•RELIANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. MUA DELIVERED AN IMPASSIO NED DEFENSE OF CHINESE SELF-RELIANCE ALONG FAMI LIAR LI NES : IMPE~IALISTS HAD INFLICTED OPIUM UPO~ CHINA, CHI ~A WAS ALL•TOO•ACCURATELY CHARACTERIZED AS ThE 11 SICI< 1-'AN OF ASIA 6

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AND CHI ESE SELF•CONFIDENCE WAS CONSEQ UENTLY IMPAIRED, BUT FOLLOWING 27 YEARS OF "EARTHSHAK ING CHA~GE5 1 " THE CHINESE PEOPLE HAD SHED TKEIR INFERIORITY COMPL EX AND BEGUN TO BELIEVE THAT THEY COULD ACHIEVE WHAT FOREIGN ~uu l'RIES HAV. YET CHINESE SELF-CONFIDENCE WAS STILL I NCOMPLETE EVEN TODAY. FOR THIS REASON, ANO BECAUSE THE POST•LI8ERATION "YOU NGER GENERATION" COULD NOT WHOLLY COMPREHEND THE SITUATIO~ EXISTING BEFORE 1949, THE CHINESE LEADERSHIP ATTACHED A HIGH PRIORITY TO EDUCATING THE MASSES CONSTANTLY IN THE MEANING OF "SELF•RELIANC~," THE CHINESE, HUA SAID, ARE STRIVING "TO BUILD A ~OO~kN CHINA BY THE END OF THE CENTURY," CDELEGATION ~EMBERS AGREE THAT HUA DID NOT AOO THE WQRO "SOCIALIST" HERE BEFORE CHINA AS IN THE STANDA"O FORMULATION,) 1N SO OOlNG, THt:. FOCAL. POINT OF DtVELOPMEN1 liULO BE THE SMALL TOWNS IN THE CHINESE INTERIOR, ~OT THF DEVELOPED URBAN CENTERS,

9, IMPRESSIONS OF HUA, OR, SCHLESINGER AND H" S DE~EGATIO~ WERE FAVORABLY IMPRESSEO BY HUA, ::XPECTI. 1G A RATHER UNSOPHISTICATED AND TENATIVE APPA~ATCHIK UNSCHOOLED I N T~E INTRICACIES OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, THEY DETECTED INTELL.IGErC~, CO NFIDENCE , AND AN AURA Of LEADERSHIP. CHINE~t uFFICIAL$ PRESE NT TREATED HUA WITH OEFERENC~ AND ~ESPE~T (TrlF. PRECEDING DAY, OR, SCHLESINGER OBSERV~O, SOME Of THE S'ME O~FICIALS HAD REGARDED YE~ CHlEN•Y!NG WITH "VENERATION") (R EF B), HUA HAD MASTERED HlS BRIEF, REFERRING RARELY TO THE TfXT BEFORE HIM BUT LOOKING TO FOREIGN It4ISTER CHI40 FOR OCCASIONAL GUIDANCE WHEN REQUIRED TO ADURESS UNA NTICIPATED

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