(PR 3795/9/G)
SECRET.
ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA IN THE FAR EAST
General Policy.
1.
The broad task of our anti-Communist propaganda in the
Far East, as seen from London by the Foreign Office and
Colonial Office, is to impress on the peoples of the area the
essential hostility of Kremlin-controlled Communism to
nationalism in Asia, and thereby to attempt to offset the
anti-imperialist and anti-colonial campaign being run there
under Russian-Chinese inspiration.
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2.
In regard to China in particular the task is not at
this juncture to attempt any subversion of Chinese Communist
control or administration. The end for which we must work is
that the Chinese Government should wean itself from Soviet
control and from identity of policy with the Soviet Union.
Though it may be beyond the powers of the Russian Communist
Party to control China for long, a breach if it comes will
only be effected to a slight extent by the actions of foreign
powers, even the United States. No non-Communist power can
hope to do much to promote a "Titoist" development of the
Chinese Communist Party - that is, a break from complete
domination by the Kremlin, without necessarily the abandonment
of Communist principles in internal economic and political
development.
3.
Nevertheless, we must seek to exploit, so far as is
possible within our very limited means, the points of friction
between the C.C. P. and the C.P.S.U. (B), the Chinese People'
Republic and the Government of the Soviet Union, and the
people of China and the Russian agents of intelligence,
security and economic and commercial penetration, It is
essential to any policy of such "encouragement" of Titoism
that there should be throughout our propaganda and guidance
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