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TO IMMEDIATE PEKING TELEGRAM NO 614 OF 11 OCTOBER
11 OCTOBER
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AND TO HONG KONG
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VISIT OF HUANG HUA
1. FOLLOWING IS A PRELIMINARY, OFF-THE-CUFF ACCOUNT OF WEDNESDAY'S TALKS OFFICIAL RECORDS WILL FOLLOW,
2. THE FIRST SESSION OF TALKS WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE WAS DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. THIS DISCUSSION, WHICH WILL BE CARRIED ON INTO THE FIRST PART OF THE SECOND SESSION ON THURSDAY, CENTRED ON EAST/WEST RELATIONS. DR OWEN EMPHASISED THE UK'S CLOSE LINKS WITH THE US AND EUROPE AND THE CLOSE SIMILARITY OF VIEWS BETWEEN THE US AND EUROPE ON THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE USSR, THE UK WAS COMMITTED TO DIALOGUE WITH THE USSR ALTHOUGH WE WERE CONCERNED AT THE BUILD UP OF SOVIET DEFENCE FORCES AND WERE DETERMINED TO BE VIGILANT. WE THEREFORE SUPPORTED SALT AND A COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY BUT WE ARE NOT PREPARED TO EXCLUDE HUMAN RIGHTS FROM THE DIALOGUE.
3. HUANG SPOKE OF THE CHANGES IN THE WORLD SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR, ESPECIALLY THE STRUGGLE TO INDEPENDENCE OF THE THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES. THEY HAD LEARNED TO COMBINE INTO REGIONAL AND TRANS- REGIONAL GROUPS, AND THEIR ASPIRATIONS WERE A FACTOR WHICH COULD NOT BE IGNORED IN SOLVING INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS, A FURTHER CHANGE WAS THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE TWO RIVAL CAMPS, (SOCIALIST AND IMPERIALIST). HUANG DESCRIBED MAO'S THEORY OF THREE WORLDS. THE US WAS ON THE DEFENSIVE AND THE SOVIET UNION ON THE OFFENSIVE. WAR WAS
INEVITABLE BUT NOT IMMINENT. IN THE PAST YEAR THE SOVIET UNION HAD
STEPPED UP HER EXPANSIONIST ACTIVITIES ON THE **PERIPHERY* OF EUROPE (IE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA). IF THE SOVIET UNION SUCCEEDED IN ITS AIM OF STRATEGIC SUPERIORITY, EUROPE AND THE US WOULD BE CRIPPLED. HUANG THEN DETAILED SOVIET ACTIVITIES IN AFRICA (INCLUDING ALL OF CUBANS), AFGHANISTAN AND SOUTH YEMEN,
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