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PROBABLY DELIBERATE, 12ONY THE AMOUNCEMENT OF HIS DEMOVAL MAS MADE IN THE SAME RATHER UROSTHODOX WAY THAT DENG LICUNTS MAS. ZHU VAS DESCRIBED AS COMPADE IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT, SO THERE WOULD APPEAR TO BE NO INTENTION OF PUBLICLY HUMILIATING HIM BUT THE MESSAGE OF HIS DISMISSAL IS CLEAR ENOUGH: A NEW AND MUCH TOUGHER IDEOLOGICAL LINE WILL BE TAKEN IN PROPAGANDA FROM NOW ON. THE MAN CHOSEN TO EXECUTE THIS, WANG RENZHI, IS FROM RED FLAG WHICH HAS LONG DEEN ONE OF THE MORE IDEOLOGICALLY OPTHODOX OF CHINA'S JOURNALS, AND FOR THAT
HAS SUFFERED IN RECENT YEARS A COMPARATIVE LOSS OF INFLUENCE TO THE MORE GO-AHEAD PUBLICATIONS SUCH AS LIAWANG. LITTLE IS KNOWN OF
WANG'S BACKGROUND. HE IS NOT ONE OF THE OLDER GENERATION. HE WAS
MADE AN ALTERNATE MEMBER OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE IN 1992 AND WAS
PROMOTED TO FULL MEMBERSHIP IN 1995. HE HAD HELD HIS POST IN RED
FLAG SINCE 1992. BUT HIS SYMPATHIES DO PROBABLY LIE WITH THE
CONSERVATIVES.
HE WAS ONE OF THE CONVENERS OF A RECENT SYMPOSIUM ORGANISED BY PED FLAG AT WHICH CHINA'S SOCIAL SCIENTISTS WERE MADE
TO COME OUT WITH HARD LINE IDEOLOGICAL STATEMENTS WHICH MUST HAVE
GONE VERY MUCH AGAINST THE GPAIN FOR THE HAVING BEEN
FOREFRONT OF LIBERAL THINKING.
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4. THESE CHANGES WILL BE A CAUSE OF SATISFACTION FOR THE
CONSERVATIES AND ESPECIALLY FOR DENG LIQUT WHO MUST BE FEELING THAT
HIS VIEWS HAVE BEEN VINDICATED. ONCE AGAIN THE MESSAGE GOES OUT TO
CHINA'S INTELLECTUALS TO RESTRICT THEIR ENQUIRIES TO THE AREAS OF THEIR SPECIALISATION AND NOT TO VENTURE INTO THE, ONCE MORE, FORBIDDEN ZONE OF POLITICAL THEORY WHERE PARTY ORTHODOXY ONCE MORE
HOLDS SWAY.
5. ZHU HOUZE HAD NO KNOWN DIRECT CAREEP LINKS WITH HU YAOBANG WHEN HE WAS VERY SUDDENLY TRANSFERRED FROM GUIZHOU PROVINCE TO THE PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENT IN 1935. BUT HE WAS THEREAFTER CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH MORE LIBERAL VIEWS. FOR THIS HE HAS NOW PAID THE
PRICE. IT PEMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER HIS REMOVAL HERALDS FURTHER CHANGES EITHER IN THE PROPAGANDA AND CULTUPAL NETWORK OR IN OTHER
AREAS WHERE HU YAOBANG'S ASSOCIATES HOLD POSITIONS OF INFLUENCE. THERE CANNOT BE RULED OUT. AT THE VERY LEAST HIS REMOVAL ENSURES
THAT THE POT IS KEPT SIMMERING.
6. FED REGISTRY PLEASE COPY TO THE USUAL POLITICAL ADDRESSEES IN
LONDON.
SIGVET. RF WYE.
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