RENITENCE OF CHINESE COMMUNISTS TOWARD PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL WAR

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 19, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
IN OR ATO REPORT
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Renitence of Chinese Ce?nunists Tarard
Participation in International rear
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DATE DISTR. 19 Oct. 1950
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At the meetings of Molotov and MAO Tse-tung in September Llolotov urged MAO
to send Chinese Communist troops to Korea.* MAO refused on the grounds that
China's wealth, power, and culture are concentrated in the cities of Peiping,
Tientsin,, Hankow, Nanking, Shanghais and Cantons and if China entered the war
the United States would bomb these cities, destroying the heart of everything
the Chinese Communist Party has been trying to build up.
2. According to LAO the Chinese Comfmmist leaders are dissatisfied with the treat-
ment the North Koreans have received from the Soviet Union. They have not liked
to see the Soviets begin a venture without itself being fully prepared to face
all consequences of its and in particular do not relish the spectacle of the
North Koreans bearing their present suffering alone.
3. CHIEN Man, who for some time has been sending supplies from Communist China to
Indochina through Macao, stated privately that the Chinese Communists would not
take part in open war in Indochina: as China needs one year of rest. CII'2141 did
not preclude the shipment of supplies to friendly countries. He also stated
that the Chinese Communists had signed a treaty of alliance with the Viet Uinh,
but he did not give any of the details of it. ti
1i. In the opinion of CIIAM Shih-chaos a non-Com amist high up in the Chinese Comm?,
nisi Governments MAO is unwilling to become involved in foreign wars now, partly
because he is increasingly concerned with the semi-independent, atl,~s of some
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of the military regions of China, rrhich have shorm, a tendency from time to
time to ignore decisions of the Government in Peiping.
1.10 still commands the respect of the Chinese people, however, both within
and rrithout the Communist Party. He is considered a patriot and is believed
to be tr-,,ring to keep China from becoming entirely dependent on the Covict
Union. It Will require tvro or three years for MO to realize his ideal of
lessening Soviet influence on China.
Iron-Communist groves in 'cipin-; are nary very ;Teak, according to C'-11,'G. One
reason for this is that they have overplayed their role by being even more
radical in some natters than the Communist themselves.
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rumors this version
017 the Holotov-LTAO se-tung m:!etin;. There is, however, no real evidence
that a meeting was held. For other accounts of the meeting
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