MAN 4771 ORVBAN 1982
FIDENTIAL
FX FCOLM
TT PEKIN
ず 40KYO
IT SECU
TT MEDEL
FM WASHI TO FOOLN
2323127 MAY
1100
CS JUNIROY
300852
CONFIDENT FAL
PM WASHINGTON
TO TELELETTER FCO
TELELETTER NER
GF 2923121 MAY 87
AND TO TELELETTER PEKINO, TOKYO, SEOUL, MOSCOW, NEW DELHI
FM : P F RICKETTS ESQ, FIRST SECRETARY, CHANCERY TO: RICHARD FLETCHER-COOKE ESQ, FED, FOO
COPY CHANCERY, PEKING
CHANCERY, TOKYO
CHANCERY, SEGUL
CHANCERY, MOSCOW
CHANCERY, NE DELHI
US/CHINA
"The Smith (10)
event
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1. AS FORESHADOWED IN TONY INSALL'S TELCLETTER OF 24 APRIL, YANG SHANGKUN VISITED THE US FROM 15-27 MAY. HE WAS ACCOMPANIED
BY THOSE IDENTIFIED IN TONY INSALL'S TELELETTER, IN WASHINGTON HE SAN PRESIDENT REAGAN, THE VICE PRESIDENT, SHULTZ, WEINBERGER, AND LEADERS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE, IN ADDITION TO WASHINGTON
HE VISITED NEW YORK, ST LOUIS, THE STRATEGIC AIR COMMARD HEADQUARTERS AND LOS ANGELES. HE MADE A MAJOR SPEECH IN LOS
ANGELES (CUPY FOLLOWS BY BAG).
2. GË NË MARTIN ON THE CHINA DESK IN STATE HAS BRIEFED ME ON THE
VISIT. THE FOLLOWING APPEAR TO BE THE MAIN POINTS:
D)
CHINA INTERNAL. YANG GAVE NOTHING AWAY ABOUT THE LEADERSHIP
ISSUE. ON REFORM HE NERELY REPEATED THE STANDARD LINE! CHINA'S
OPENNESS TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD WOULD CONTINUE, AS WOULD THE
POLITICAL REFORM PROGRAMME AND CHINA'S SOCIALIST MODERNISATION DRIVE, ETC.
PO US/CHINA. YANG RAISED TAIWAN AT ALL HIS MAIN MEETINGS WITH THE AUNINISTRATION, BUT HE DID 30 IN LOW KEY. HE EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT THE US WOULD PLAY A MORE ACTIVE ROLE IN BRINGING ABOUT REUNIFICATION, AND IN THE MEANTIME PROMOTE THE THREE LINKS: AND DISCOURAGE ADVOCACY OF TAIWAN INDEPENDENCE IN THE US (AM AMPLIED REBUKE TO SENATOR PELL WHO HAS INTRODUCED RESOLUTIONS ON THESE LINES IN THE SENATE). SHULTZ RESPONDED IN SIMILARLY LOW KEY, REPEATING THAT THE ADMINISTRATION WOULD NOT TRY TO PUT PRESSURE ON ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER, BUT WOULD DO WHAT THEY COULD TO BRING ABOUT A POSITIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR CLOSER COOPERATION BETWEEN CHINA AND TAIWAN, HE SAYE AS AN EXAMPLE THE ADB ISSUE. THERE WAS NO REFERENCE TO US ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN, YANG DEVOTED A MAJOR PART OF HIS SPEECH IN LOS ANGELES TO THE TAIWAN ISSUE, DESCRIBING THE SPECIAL STATUS WHICH TAMAN WOULD ENJOY AFTER REUNIFICATION AS A SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION (QUOTE IT MAY CONTINUE ITS FOREIGN TRADE AS USUAL AND MAINTAIN ITS ECONOMIC AND TRADE RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES. ALL THE ECONOMIC RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF FOREIGN INVESTORS IN TAIMAR WILL ALSO REMAIN INTACT UNQUOTE). MARTIN COMMENTED THAT THESE REMARKS WERE VERY SIMILAR TO THOSE MADE BY ZHAO DURING A VISIT TO LOS ANGELES IN 1994. ON OTHER BILATERAL ISSUES, YANG PRESSED FOR FULL CATEGORY FIVE TREATMENT FOR CHINA IN COCOM. SHULTE REPLIED THAT GREAT PROGRESS HAD ALREADY BEEN MADE IN THIS FIELD, AND HE HOPED THAT FURTHER PROGRESS WOULD BE POSSIBLE.
£44) ARMS SALES TO IRAN. THE US SIDE RAISED CHINESE ARMS SALES, PARTICULARLY SILKWORMS. YANG DERTED THAT CHINA SUPPLIED ARMS TO
IRAN,
ARMS CONTROL. SHULTZ AND WE INBERGER BRIEFED YANG ON THE GENEVA NEGOTIATIONS. ON NE YANG SAID THAT CHINA SUPPORTED BALANCED INF REDUCTIONS IN EUROPE AND ASIA AND PREFERRED A GLOBAL ZERO OUTCOME. THEY WERE SCEPTICAL ABOUT AN AGREEMENT WHICH LEFT THE RUSSIANS WITH A RESIDUAL 100 WARHEADS BECAUSE THEY DOUBTED THAT THE RUSSIANS WOULD EVER AGREE IN A SECOND ROUND OF REGOTHAT LONS TO REMOVE THEM. YANG ADDED THAT HIS SCEPTICISM WAS BASED ON HIS OWN EXPERIENCE IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE RUSSIAMS: ALTHOUGH HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE NEW SOVIET LEADERSHIP MIGHT BE DIFFERENT FROM ITS PREDECESSORS.
V) SIND/SOVIET RELATIONS. YANG BRIEFED THE AMERICANS ON YAO YILIN'S VISIT TO MOSCOW. THE RUSSIANS HAD NOT GIVEN AN INCH ON POLITICAL ISSUES, ALTHOUGH SOME PROGRESS HAD BEEN MADE ON ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS, HE DESCRIBED THE BOUNDARY REGOTIATIONS AS AS MARATHON PROCESS, BUT THE FACT THAT THEY WERE CONTINUING WAS POSITIVE. CHINA AND THE SOVIET UNION WERE WATCHING EACH OTHERS ECONOMIC REFORMS. THE CHINESE WISHED THE RUSSIANS WELL AND SINCERELY WANTED TO IMPROVE ECONOMIC RELATIONS. BUT THESE WOULD NEVER GET BACK TO THE LEVELS OF THE 19508. VI SINO/INDIAN BORDER. YANG APPEARED TO BE WELL BRIEFED AND DEALT WITH THE SUBJECT CALMLY AND WITHOUT RHETORIC. NE COMMENTED THAT INDIAN ACTIVITIES OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS HAD OBLIGED CHINA TO RESUME PATROLLING HEAR THE LINE OF ACTUAL CONTROL. IN RECENT MONTHS THE INDIANS HAD DEED INCREASING THEIR MILITARY ACTIVITY, AND HAD ENGAGED IN A BUILD UP OF TROOPS, FOOD AND MILITARY SUPPLIES. THIS INDICATED AN INDIAN INTENTION TO STAY IN THE PR NEW POSITIONS FOR A LONG TIME, THE CHINESE SEDE HAD NO WISH TO FIGHT A WAR WITH INDIA, AND HOPED THAT THE CONFLICT COULD BE AVOIDED. BUT MINOR CONFLICTS QUOTE BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS UNQUOTE WERE PROBABLY INEVITABLE. CHINA ATTRIBUTED INDIA'S ACTIONS ON THE SORDER TO INDIA'S DOMESTIC DIFFICULTIES. V!1) SINO/JAPANESE RELATIONS, DISCUSSED MATALY BETWEEN ARMACOST AND VICE FOREIGN MINISTER XHU. XHU SAID THAT RELATIONS WERE GENERALLY STRONG AND FRIENDLY, BUT THE CHINESE HAD SOME CUNCERS THE RISING JAPANESE MILITARY BUDGET, AND JAPANESE HANDLING OF THEIR RELATIONS WITH TAIWAN, INCLUDING TRADE AHO INVESTMENT. THE HEAVY BALANCE OF TRADE IN JAPAN'S FAVOUR WAS ALSO A MATTER OF CONCERN. ARMACOST SYMPATHISED, XHU SAID THEY THE JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER WOULD BE VISITING CHINA IN LATE JUNE,
VII) KOREA. YANG SAID THAT CHINA WAS ENCOURAGED BY THE POSITIVE STEPS TAKEN BY THE US TOWARDS CONTACT WITH THE NORTH KOREANS. THE US SHOULD DU MORE IN THIS DIRECTION, THE CHINESE HAD GONE AS FAR AS THEY COULD WITH SOUTH KOREA. ON THE OLYMPICS, CHINA SUPPORTED THE NORTH KOREAN PROPOSAL FOR JOINT SPONSOR- SHIP BUT LEFT THIS AS AN ISSUE TO BE RESOLVED BETWEEN THE TWO KOREAS. KIM IL SUNG'S VISIT TO PEKING HAD SEEN ON HIS OWN INITIATIVE: THE CHINESE HAD DEEN GIVEN NO IDEA BEFOREHAND WHAT HE WOULD BE RAISING. THEY ASSUMED HE WOULD IN PARTICULAR SEEK CHINESE SUPPORT ON THE OLYMPICS.
3. DOUG PAAL (NSC) TOLD ME TODAY THAT HE HAD BEEN IMPRESSED WITH YANG, WHO HAD SUSTAINED A LONG AND BUSY PROGRAMME SURPRISINGLY WELL. YANG ESTABLISHED A GOOD RAPPORT WHIH THE PRESIDENT IN A MEETING WHICH RAM LONGER THAN EXPECTED) AND PARTICULARLY WITH BUSH. THE DISCUSSION OVER DINNER ON THÊ PRESIDENTIAL YACHT HOSTED BY BUSH WAS BY SLL ACCOUNTS FASCINATING, WITH YANG REMINISCING FREELY ABOUT MAG AND CHOU, THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION, ETC. ALL IN ALL, ALTHOUGH YANG SEEMS TO HAVE STUCK CLOSELY TO HIS BRIEF GH SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES, HE CAME ACROSS AS AN ENGAGING AND WORTHWHILE INTERLOCUTER. THE AMERICANS DO NOT NOW EXPECT ANY OTHER SENIOR CHINESE VISEFORS HERE UNTIL WELL AFTER THE PARTY CONGRESS.
SIGNED P F RICKETTS
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URMBAN 1982
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