CHINA REGIONAL AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00912A001100010042-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 26
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 26, 2012
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: August 2, 1977
• Content Type: REPORT

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Secret
China
IONAL AND
POLITICAL ANALYSIS
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RP AC 77-019
2 August 1977
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2 August 1977
Rehabilitation Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Teng's "Twenty Points" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The PLA: Differences Over Teng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
After the Plenum: A Political Map of China. . . . . . . . . 8
Choosing Partners: The Provincial Emulation
Campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Problems with Ideology in the Balkans. . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Rehabilitating the "Outline Report". . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chronology .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington community by
the East Asia/Pacific Division, Office of Regional and Political Analysis, with
occasional contributions from other offices within the Directorate of Intelligence.
Comments and queries are welcome. They should be directed to the authors of the
individual articles.
RP AC 77-019
2 August 1977
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Rehabilitation Revisited
The circumstances of Teng Hsiao-ping's 1977 rehabili-
tation are vastly different from those of 1973. Despite
the fact that his major adversaries, the "gang of four,"
were out of the way this time, his return required an
extensive period of preparing public opinion, in part
because the effort to bring him back began even as the
campaign against him was still in progress. This sudden
change of heart about Teng left some leaders, like Peking
party boss Wu Te, stranded in the old anti-Teng campaign,
and it was necessary before bringing Teng back to exonerate
such people. Moreover, while Teng's 1973 return was no
threat to Mao Tse-tung or Chou En-lai, who both supported
and facilitated it, his 1977 comeback is indeed a threat
to Hua Kuo-feng, who probably did not support it and
certainly did not make the process easy.
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