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Chinese Communist Government unless that Goverment
engages in acts which prove the contrary.
4.
It is desirable to keep separate the issues of
Communist subversive activities in Malaya and the relations
of H.M.G. 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 Goverment of China.
5. This does not mean that we approve of Communism. For
we consider Communism to be the means whereby the Russians
seek to expand and to dominate all Asian territories. As
Buch 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.
6. The danger to China is Russian penetration and
domination. It is essential, until further notice, to a void
any suggestion that any tendencies towards Titoism 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
Russian, 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 China; but for the present
blame should be laid on the Kremlin.
7. For the sake of world opinion it is desirable to
represent the struggle in Malaya as being directed against