TNAG-1457-FCO40-1981-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-China-1986 — Page 32

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INTERNATIONAL LINKS OF THE CCP

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An article signed by Lian Yan appeared in the Peoples' Daily on 29 June on the subject of the international links of the CCP. It said that contacts of the CCP with foreign parties must serve China's modernisation and world peace, and it gives an account of the recent reorganisation and expansion of the Internal Liaison Department of the CPC. It also set out the guiding principles for such foreign contacts.

2. The article asserts that all work of the CPC must obey and serve its central task, which is to realise socialist modernisation of China. A strong socialist modern China can contribute greatly to peace and economic prosperity in the world, and human progress. The CPC stands for combining patriotism with internationalism, and will support the just struggles of people in third world countries for safeguarding their national independence and developing their national economies, as well as the struggles of peoples of various countries for their legitimate rights and interests. It explains that "support" means moral and political support as well as necessary humanitarian aid. China is opposed to the export of revolution and believes that it is up to the people of a country to decide which social system they preferred.

3. The article refers to the development of relations since 1978 with parties and organisations in the third world, and since 1981 with socialist and social democratic parties in Europe where those parties are working for disarmament and peace. Although the CPC differs with those parties in Europe on some international issues, it pursues a policy of transcending ideological differences to seek mutual understanding and co-operation, which has proved to be conducive to state to state relations and friendship among peoples of those countries as well as to world peace. The CPC has now established relations with more than 200 communist and non-communist parties throughout the world.

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