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Reporte of Army Day receptions held in foreign countries have brought to
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14 AUG 1969 49* sppointments or postings.
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the following:-
Pakistan
Sun Pi-jung
We have noted
Military Attaché.
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Mali
No previous record.
"Feng Yuch
Chargé a.i.
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No previous record.
Denmerk
Wang Yen-chang Chargé a.i.
No previous record.
Switzerland
Wang Hsueh-chien Acting Military Attaché.
No previous record.
Poland
Lei Yang
Chargé a.i.
Counsellor, Burma 1956-61.
Director, Education Dept. of MFA 1964.
Cuba
Li Shan-1
Chargé a.i.
No previous record.
North Viet-Nam
Teng Kun-shan
Sweden
Military Attaché.
Man of same name was First Secretary of Chinese Economic and Cultural
Mission to Laos 1965.
Wang Yung-sheng
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Military Attaché, Berne, Switzerland from 1964-9. /2.
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(F. Brewer)
Far Eastern Section, Research Department.
13 August, 1969.
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MOD/DI2 Lt. Col. Pierce
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Thank you for sending us a copy of your letter 3/375 of 24 July
reporting the appointment of a new Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan.
2.
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According to our records, the Chinese Ambassador in early 1967 was Ši:
Zan-tchyi. enclose a short note on him from our 1967 leads of Missions
Report which you may find useful.
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Chinese Ambassadors
Our last report on this subject was Hugh Davies's letter (not to all) of
24 June, The following heads of mission have since left for their Posta,
according to NONA.
Wang Tse left for Nepal on 12 July.
Feng Yu-chiu left for Mauritania on 15 July.
Hsieh Pang-chih left for Afghanistan on 17 July,
Li Chiang-fen (Chargé d'Affaires a.1.) left for Southern Yemen on 17
July.
Yang Chi-liang left for Algeria on 19 July.
Wang Jo-chieh returned to the Yemen on 19 July.
2. The total to date is 14 now ambassadors and 2 returning ambassadors.
It is not clear from the press report ner from our records whether Li
Chiang-fen's appointment as Charge
He was previously d'Affaires in Southern Yemen is new or not, Counsellor
in the Yemen.
3. The old Chinese ambassador to Mali was seen at a reception at the
Mali Embassy on 18 July. This may mean he will return to his Post soon,
but members of the Embassy cannot confirm this.
4. One point which cbservers here have made is that, whilst a few new
Chinese faces have appeared at diplomatic receptions recently (or rather
their names have been recorded by the press as having attended), all the
now ambassadors are known cercer diplomats and their appointments are
plausible in a conventional sense. Though the Chinese may still go
outside the ranks of pre Cultural Revolution professionals for future
ambassadors, the nature of those senior appointments is striking
evidence of the continuity and current pragmatism of Chinese policy. It
reinforces the already strong tendency of some observers to say that
really nothing has changed and within months we shall be back to 1965 as
regards this aspect of Chinese government We must, cf course, stop short
of this.
5. Copies of this letter go to Miss Draycett in IRD, Brewer in RD,
keston in PUSD(2), Pierce in DIS, Spendlove in Washington, Hibbert in
Singapore, UcLaren and Ashworth in Hong Kong, Hewitt in Canberra and
Chancery at Tokyo,
Yours wer
and
J.D. Laughton.
J.D.I. Boyd, Esq.,
FIR ASTERN DEPARTMENT,
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Far Eastern Department
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30 July, 1969.
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Chinese Ambassador
Thank you for your letter of 11 July about Mr. Yang Ki-liang (Yang
Ch'i-liang in our own romanisation). It may be helpful to you to have
the following biographical details:
Political offiser in the People's Liberation Army before entry into the
MPA, Counsellor in Warsaw, 1950-55. Head of General Office of NFA, 1958.
Appointed Ambassador to Morocco, 1961.
2. According to some accounts that have reached us the newly appointed
Chinese Ambassadors have resumed the practice of calling formally on
their colleagues. If Mr. Yang calls on your Ambassador we should be most
grateful if you could let us know what Kr. Yang has to say.
J. R. Johnson, Esq.,
ALGIERS.
(J. D. I. Boyd)
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We were grateful to have your account in your letter 25/3 of 22 July of
the Chinese Ambassador's call.
2.
I am sorry that we have not previously supplied you with a biographical
note on Wang Tung. There is in fact little to say, He know only that he
was Chargé d'Affaires in Tirana in 1954 and that he held the post in
Bucharest to which you refer from 1964- 67. Like the other Chinese
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rather than a simple Maoist.
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at the Swedish Embassy in Peking before his departure (an unprecedented
event in the Peking of recent years). We understand that this was a
relaxed affair and that the conversa- tion turned on such topics as
Chinese ceramics in the collection of the King of Sweden.
Sir Archibald Ross, KCMG,
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Chinese Activities
He
In paragraph 4 of your circular 0 66/69 of 24 March you mentioned that
you were interested in the details of Chinese diplomats in various
countries. You might like to know that the Chinese Embassy here has
recently informed us that the Ambassador to Morocco, who has been absent
ever since the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, has now finally
left Rabat. The Chargé d'Affaires, Ting Wen-pin, expents to be in
command for some time The latter has in recent months been far more
friendly than in the past. He turned up at the Queen's Birthday Party
given by the Ambassador, providing the first Chinese representation
there for four years. and his young interpreter have had several
friendly conversa- tione both with me and with Peter Dain, our Second
Secretary, and have introduced a new Press Attaché to me during such
conversations. They have said that the Second Secretary, Miao
Hsiang-tao, who was for some time the only diplomatic representative of
the Chinese Embassy here, is away on (genuine) leave in China. The
Chinese realise that they are not very popular here and seem to have
reduced the propaganda activities which in the past led to complaints of
their misuse of the diplomatic bag for the importation of propaganda and
to the expulsion of several Chinese students from Rabat University last
December.
Yours ever,
hathu
(J.F. Walker)
Eastern European and Soviet Department,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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22 July, 1969.
72.
The Chinese Ambassador to Sweden, Jang Tung, called on me this morning
accompanied by his interpreter, Wang Chin-shing, who appears on the List
of the Chinese Embassy as a Third Secretary.
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As foreseen in your telegram No. 255 of 21 July, for the timely receipt
of which I am grateful, Wang Tung stuck to non-controversial topics.
took advantage of his question whether I had been in "the Orient" to
tell him of a few incidents in my family history which relate to China.
He responded to the extent of saying that many Englishmen came to China.
I suggested that such contacts were useful and he went as far as to say
that all contacts were indeed desirable, an expression which I took to
be cautious but not unfriendly. I said that I would be happy to
contribute in some small way to the consolidation of relations which I
knew to be the wish of Her Majesty's Government, and Wang Tung said that
he reciprocated my sentiments. When, however, I went further and said
that I hoped hé shared my view that there was no major reason why our
relations should not develop satisfactorily he said no more than that
his Government desired good relations with all Governments who sincerely
shared that aspiration. This was said quite calmly and without any
perceptible innuendo.
I did not think it necessary to refer specifically to the recent rapid
expansion of Sino- British trade and, as you will see, Wang Tung did not
mention and indeed obviously avoided mentioning the patriotic news
workers. Sino-Soviet border problems and the Soviet proposal for a
collective security system in Asia seemed to me better reserved for my
return call, which the Ambassador said that he would be happy to receive
whenever I wished. The same is probably true of Wang Tung's experiences
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Far Eastern Department,
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of the Cultural Revolution; he told me that while in the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs he had concentrated on Eastern Europe and had therefore
had no direct contact with our Mission in Peking.
I think that I may have been over-hasty in concluding from the fact that
he called so early on my French colleague that he would be tardy in
paying me a visit. In fact he told me that he had not yet called on the
Polish Ambassador, who is considerably my senior and who is leaving
Stockholm in a few days' time. On the other hand he has called on the
Tanzanian, who is very much my junior. Almost certainly, as you have
surmised, he has not called on the Soviet and Indian Ambassadors, who in
any case have been on leave for the past few weeks. is, therefore, a
case of policy before protocol.
It
Wang Tung, about whom we do not seem to have received any biographical
information, was at some recent stage Counsellor in the Chinese Embassy
in Bucharest. Presumably it was to this post to which he was referring
when he told me that he had met some of my compatriots. I take it for
granted that he is a diplomat of considerable standing since otherwise,
quite apart from his Bucharest appointment, he would not have been sent
to Stockholm to open the preliminary negotiations with the Canadians for
the establishment of diplomatic relations.
While allowing a good margin of error in assessing the behaviour of a
Chinese, I must say that I was agreeably surprised by my first encounter
with Wang Tung He had watched the Investiture of the Prince of Wales on
Swedish television and commented in particular on the fact that the
Prince spoke Welsh. He only raised the subject, however, after we had
talked of languages and dialects within our respective countries. He
also suggested that I was an aristocrat because I was called "Sir",
whereupon I explained that my titled was solely connected with my
professional duties; I also described, at his request, the ceremony of
the accolade.
I then
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attempted a discussion of the place of tradition in modern societies, of
which of course Britain was a striking example, but I got no more than
an admission that some of our ceremonial reminded the Ambassador of the
feudal period in Chinese history.
I have only reported to you at this length because I suppose that in
such cases even silence is of interest.
Yours sincerely,
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ALGIERS.
11 July, 1969
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Dear Department,
New Chinese Ambassador to Algeria
The Algerian Government have agreed to the appointment of M. Yang Ki
Liang as Ambassador and Plenipotentiary of the Chinese Peoples Republic.
M. Liang replaces M. Tseng Tao who returned to China two years ago and
has not been back to Algiers since.
Yours ever,
K
Far Eastern Department,
Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
.R. Johnson)
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