1979, TO SIGNAL THE END OF THE PARTY'S TOLERANCE OF THE DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT OF THE WINTER OF 1978/79. THE FOUR PRINCIPLES ARE: KEEPING TO THE SOCIALIST ROAD, UPHOLDING THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE
PROLETARIAT, UPHOLDING THE LEADERSHIP OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND UPHOLDING MARXISM-LENINISM MAO ZEDONG THOUGHT.
6. BOTH DENG AND LI WENT TO SOME LENGTHS TO STRESS THEIR MESSAGE OF CONTINUITY IN POLICY AND TO PLAY DOWN THE EFFECT THE CURRENT IDEOLOGICAL DISCUSSIONS WOULD HAVE ON ITS IMPLEMENTATION. THIS IS A CLEAR SIGNAL TO OFFICIALS THROUGHOUT CHINA NOT TO USE THE
IDEOLOGICAL DEBATE AS AN EXCUSE TO BLOCK OR DELAY THE IMPLEMENTATION OF REFORMS.
7. DESPITE THE CONTINUED OFFICIAL SILENCE ON HU YAOBANG'S FATE, IT IS HARD TO RECONCILE DENG XIAOPING'S REMARKS ABOUT POLITICAL STABILITY AND UNITY WITH THE IDEA THAT HU YAOBANG HAS BEEN DISCARDED
OR DISMISSED.
8. THE FOUR BASIC PRINCIPLES ARE ENSHRINED IN THE CURRENT CONSTITUTION OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC, WHICH WAS ADOPTED BY THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS IN DECEMBER 1982, AND IN THE CURRENT STATUTES OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, WHICH WERE ADOPTED BY THE 12TH PARTY CONGRESS IN SEPTEMBER 1982. THE CHINESE LEADERS REFER TO THE PRINCIPLES FROM TIME TO TIME (ZHAO ZIYANG FOR INSTANCE, MENTIONED THEM IN HIS REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE GOVERNMENT TO THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS IN APRIL 1985). BUT THE LEADERS ONLY USE THEM NON-RITUALISTICALLY WHEN THEY WISH TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT POLITICAL DEBATE OUTSIDE THE CONTROL OF THE PARTY HAS GONE BEYOND TOLERABLE BOUNDS.
9. I SHALL TELEGRAPH AGAIN ON 19 JANUARY, TO GIVE MY ASSESSMENT OF: A. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS OF DECEMBER
AND THE CURRENT CAMPAIGN AGAINST BOURGEOIS LIBERALISM
B. THE PURPOSES OF THIS CAMPAIGN AND
C. THE CURRENT STANDING OF HU YAOBANG.
ON C. THE JAPANESE EMBASSY DOUBT THE RELIABILITY OF THE REPORT IN YOMIURI SHIMBUN REFERRED TO IN HONG KONG TELNO 190.
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