OUTWARD TELFORAN
FROM 8. OF S., COLONIES.
52849/11/49
Cypher (O.T.P.)
TO COMMISSIONER GENERAL, SOUTH KAST ASIA.
Sent 16th December, 1949. 22.30 hrs.
No.686 Secret.
Addressed to Commissioner General, South East Asia, Repeated to High Commissioner, Federation of Malaya,
No.1339,
pass),
*
* O.A.G. Singapore, No.1176 (Colcom please
"O.A.G. Sarawak, No.341, "O.A.G. North Borneo, No.321 (Colcom please
pass copy),
* Governor Hong Kong, No.1843.
Your telegram No.309.
Subject has been further discussed here with Foreign, Offies and following propaganda line is now agreed.
1.
The Chinese Communist Government must be distinguishe from the Communist terrorist movement in Malaya, and it should not be suggested that the latter receives any aid from the Chinese Communist Government unless that Government engages in acts which prove the contrary.
2.
It is desirable to keep separate the issues of Communist subversive activities in Malaya and the relations of H.M.Q. to the Communist Government of China. When Governments recognise each other it in no way means that they approve of each other's way of governing. What happens in China is the business of the inhabitants of China. If we recognise a Chinese Communist Government it is because it has become the effective Government of China.
3.
This does not mean that we approve of Communion. For we consider Communism to be the means whereby the Russians seek to expand and to dominate all Asian territories. As such Communism is the enemy of all genuine nationalism, since it seeks the domination of nationalism by alien influence. This alien Russian influence has, through the agency of Communism, established itself in the countries of Eastern Europe, and it will seek to establish itself in China and elsewhere in Asia in the same way.
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The danger to China is Russian penetration and domination. It is essential, until further notice, to avoid any suggestion that any tendencies towards Titoise or independence of the Kremlin exist in the Chinese Government: such tendencies would be encouraged in practice rather by our stressing the Chinese Government's subservience to Russia, acquiescence in Russian exploitation of Manchuria, etc. At present discreet references to conflicts of national interest between China and Russia should never suggest that the Chinese Communists are in any way standing up to the Kremlin. It is important to stress Russian attempts to dominate and exploit
but for the present blame should be laid on the Kremler
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China;