CO537-5132 — Page 44

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The Chinese Communist Government must be distinguished

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.

4.

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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

Government of China.

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As such,

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.

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 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 Russia,

acquiescence in Russian exploitation of Manchuria, ete, 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/