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LAST UNGA REGARDING HALT TO TFSTING/MANUFACTURING OF WEAPONS AND
REDUCTION OF EXISTING ARSENALS).ZHAO ALSO ECHOED SUPPORT FOR PMS
INITIATIVE, AND PROMISED CONTINUED CONSULTATION ON THIS ISSUE,IN
MAJOR PUBLIC STATEMENTS INCLUDING PARLIAMENTARY ADDRESS, PRESS CONF
AND DINNER TOAST.HE DID NOT/NOT GO INTO MUCH DETAIL IN TEESE FORUMS
AS TO WHICH ASPECTS OF INITIATIVE CHINA IN FACT SUPPORTED, BUT HE DID
FLAG PMS APPEAL FOR HIGH-LEVEL POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN
DIS ARMAMENT AND MENTIONED UNSPECIFIED QUOTE NEW IDEAS UNQUOTE
(PRESUMABLY UN MTG PROPOSAL) RAISED BY PM DURING TALKS.DISARMAMENT
ISSUE WAS ALSO RAISED PY NDP LEADER BROADBENT, TO WHOM ZHAO EXPRESSED
PESSIMISM OVER LIKELIHOOD OF MEANINGFUL RETURN TO INF NEGOTIATING
TABLE BY USA/USSR, GIVEN LACK OF SINCERITY BOTH HAD SO FAR SHOWN;
PREMIER EMPHASIZED THAT PRESSURE HAD TO BE APPLIED EQUALLY TO
BOTH/BOTH SUPERPOWERS SIMULTANEOUSLY, ELSE OUTSIDE EFFPRTS WOULD ONLY
ACCELERATE TRADITIONAL PENDULUM-EFFECT OF ARMAMENT AND COUNTER-
ARMAMENT.
4.TAIWAN.ALONG WITH HKONG, THIS ISSUE WAS RAISED CHIEFLY DURING
TETE-A-TETE 17JAN (ON WHICH LIKE DINNER CONVERSATION WE HAVE NOT/NCT
YET RECEIVED FULL BRIEFING).WE UNDERSTAND THAT ZHAC CEARACTERIZED
TAIWAN AS STILL A MAJOR IRRITANT IN SINO-USA RELATIONS, WITH CHINESE
VIEWPOINT BEING THAT REAGAN ADMINISTRATION WAS NOT/NOT LIVING UP TO
ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER 3 JOINT COMMUNIQUES DEFINING BILATERAL
RELATIONS SINCE 1972 (SHANGHAI I,DIPLO RECOGNITION,SHANGHAI II).
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