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TO IMMEDIATE FCO
TELEGRAM NUMBER 304 OF 21 HARCH
INFO PRIORITY HONG KONG WASHINGTON T.LKYO.
SAVING CANDERRA MOSCOW SINGAPORE
#IPT: CHINESE INTERNAL POLICIES,
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ASKED ABOUT CHINESE NODERNIZATION NERO, DANS SAID THAT
BECAUSE OF THEIR LACT OF EXPERIENCE TUD
WERE FINDING MODERNISATION
HARDER THAN AT FIRST THEY HAD THOUGHT. THE GUWELINO MEMR
TO IMPORT A LOT OF TECHNOLOGY MED PESHTS SOME CAPITAL FROM
ADVANCED COUNTRIES TO SPEED UP THE PROCESSIN BUT THE CHINESE
WOULD HAVE TO BE GOOD AT ABSORBING AND RUNNING WHAT THEY INTRODUCED RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN WERE ''PRETTY GOOD. THE UK HAD MAYÝ
THINGS THAT CHINA NGEDED.
THE CHIN-
2. IN ANSWER TO A QUESTION DENG SAID THAT IN THE PAST THERE WAS NOTD THOUGH "DEMOCRACY YAD PEOPLE WERE HOT STIMULATED. ESE PITÍCIPEE RENACHED STOCRATIC CENTRALISH, BUT AT PRESENT MORE EMPHASIS WOULD HAVE TO BE GIVEN TO THE DINOCRATIC PART OF THAT PRINCIPLE. 00ING SO, HOWEVER, CREATED ITS OWN PROBLEMS. THEY HAD ALREADY APPEARED, BUT HAD BEEN ANTICIPATED AND WERE THEREFORE NOT A GREAT SURPRISE.
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3. IN CHINESE COCIETY THERE WERE NOT ONLY SOME COUNTER-REVOLU- TIONARY ELEMENTS BUT ALSO SOME SOCIAL DREGS''. SOME YOUNG PEOPLE WOULD NEED TO BE EDUCATED SO THAT THEIR BEHAVIOUR DID NOT UP SET THE MODERNISATION PROGRAMME. SOCIAL DREGS' WERE MAKING
IT HARD TO MAINTAIN SOCIAL ORDER AND VERE GIVING DEMOCRACY A DAD NAME. FOR EXAMPLE, PROSTITUTES IN DISGUISED FORM HAD APPEARED.
THERE WAS DISREGARD FOR THE PROPRIETIES, THIS DID NOT MEAN THAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRACY SHOULD BE CURDED. BUT IT WOULD
BE NECESSARY TO STRENGTHEN THE LEGAL SYSTEM AND CARRY OUT A LOT
OF EDUCATION. TWELVE YEARS AGO ETHICAL STANDARDS IN CHINA HAD BEEN
VERY GOOD. HOW THERE HAD BEEN SOME DETERIORATION. YOUNG
POMLO MALDED (ON, WHRANCH,
UNITED CITIAL
AL. DENG WAS