OUT OF THE BLUE: A NEW U.S. POLICY ON RED CHINA?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600370007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 1, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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"Naiomil Debate' Is The, Tipoff
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tit ihe Blue: A Newt
U.S. Red China?
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rhanf".e In !orcign policy is
hrhiioi that surprise .n+-
wet ec,nent by Undersecreta-
ir Stale Averell Harriman
olcnrning a national dc--
on relations with Red
t ~ina.
1': e"itlent Kennedy person-
ik had a hand in this orrt-
of. ih2-blue declaration by hi,c
top diplomatic trouble-shoot-
cr who is going to Moscow
ru a special mission tc' try tr
Induce Premier Khrushehrv
agree to a nuclear weap-
on) test ban.
Harriman's highly signifi
rant statement is the fi!?st of
a Scrtr;s of Irta! ;1.,i 1,..,.,
aimed lit sounding. out voter
sentiment on possible over-
tures to Red China that the
President and his foreign
policy advisers have long
been deliberating.
* * *
FOREMOST arc:,n- those
favoring that are Harriman,
McGeorge Bundy, special
White House foreign policy
assistant., and I)r. 'Walt Rur,
tow, head of the State De.'
partmcnt Policy P 1 a n n i n d
Council. 'T'here are leaders of an inner council group advc-
c?alhri an "open door" policy
toward Communist Cltin:r.
In congressional e I r c 1 ft
fiery are credited as uT-:, f
the I'remid,'nt in underr;.! t)
induce C'crri'rali~sat,;r,
nn; l sls' n , w e r f u 1 I y defenri the Nationalists oil- mine whether action to this
fortified offshore strongholds Formosa, but not their claims
nr Qurrcoy and Matsu before to the mainland and offshore
the Re Chinese test their strongholds. Also proposed is
!hest: !i,. - fear device -- antics- "opening the door" to con-
'-,rher late this year or tacts with the Chinese
Corn- i? 1.964, munisla.
The argument reputedly On that the Security Coun-
ava;u ert by theFe advisers is cil paper says:
f!,at dct'..ay until after the "We should leave ajar
t`rm-unu:dats attain nuclear possibilities for expanding
!),over would make it appear commercial, cultural and
at a policy change was other contacts with Commu-
inreed h y Peiping's nuclear nist China. We should make
nrennee. clear that there Is no final
* * * bar to:.the entrance of Com-
THIS HIGHLY controver- munist China into more nor-
counsel is understood to mal relations with the U.S. if
i,o strongly opposed by some It.1s prepared to rroclify its
of the President's closest present aggressive policies.
political advisers, foremost The specific kinds of modifi-
amr,ng them Kenneth O'Don- cations that we would require
a'u! Ralph Punga.rl,plem as the p-?ioe of morn hernia?
hers or his White 1 Outae r e`t b: t i o n s should be the
claff. They have been with subject of continuing plan-
Vv,- President throughout his ring study."
political career, and while * * *
!hey have no direct voice In EFFORTS to put an r?nil to
foreign policy, their opinions ? the protracted armed strife
carry great weight with him. . between the Nationalists and
Both are deemed emphati- 'Communists are ' advocated,
cally against any change In as foilQws:
policy toward Red China '?WI., should work within
before the 7.964 presidential. it i li alts wblch a useful
election. They are warning t} ltionship with the Chinese
such ti shift would Involve r tionallsts will allow for it
p.reat political risk. dt aping down of the Chlnesu
As expounded in a National rh tionalist-Chintlse Comn1wi,
ecuril Council study on the L. civil war. The removal'of
' (nrma!ion of a China poll- Irs tonalist forces and-or the
,'v," the administration would (1% igagetnent of U.S. preri..
:r,itiate what: would amount t E'e -ore the offshore islands
! in fact, if not in name, a st.cr~ i be a major objective