OPINIONS IN PEIPING ON CEASE FIRE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008100630012-4
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: July 18, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Chin /rorea
SUBJECT Opinions in Peiping on Cease Fire
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Ste are basing their strategy of the peace
offensive ot conflicts between the United Kingdom and the United States and
partisan conflicts in the United States, honing that these conflicts vill
widen and rebound to their advantage. Should the Conn. nist detect greater
conflict between the Unite States and United. Kingdom they will oven a second
war front. In general the non-Communists in the (Government are disappointed
in the acceptance by the United 'Nations of the Communist ceasefire proposal?
and especially by negotiations taking nla;es'-in gaesong.
There has been instituted a large-scale propaganda eampaigm stating that the
United :rations has been defeated and is crying for peace.
based on the United -Tatians s, his line is partly
Communists also plan to use the@cease-fireltal .s to build the arions he r)reetlg. The
?political ?position ofr the Uorth Korean Governments eti ;e and
1. Accord?n~; to .PIUAZTG $en-poel, non-Comrunist T'iniater of Light Industry of the
Chinese Ccmmxnist Covers ent, the Communists were discouraged with the nrogre-es
of the fighting in Korea. The ceasefire vropo se.l is a peace offensive in
which the Communists hove to t^,ain ghat they failed to gain by force, including
entry into the United Nations and partici75ation in the Japanese 'peace treaty,
as well as possesaian of Taiwan.
24itTA'*G also believes that in allowing the cease-fire negotiations to take Mace
in Kaesong the United JTations provide the Comm mists with
i an excellent ap?~or~
tunity for propaganda. The Conrrnz
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4. Medium-and low-level Chinese Communist Government employees hold the following
views on the cease-fire proposal:
a. The United Nations was obviously discouraged in the fighting in Korea.
Continued losses by the United States was sure to breed popular discontent
and revolt against the Government. Because of the Iranian crisis the
British were unable to handle their international commitments and maintain
their own interests. Therefore, the United "Ps,tions is eager for peace.
b. President Truman and. Secretary Marshall desire to capitalize on the cease-
fire negotiations and proposed peace in Korea in order to discredit the
views of those who hold with General t!achrthur.
c. The United. States,-the United Kingdom, and France are unable to continue
to cooperate in the war.
d. The cease-fire talks at Kaesong show both a victory for the Communist bloc
and its generosity in seeking and attaining peace.
e. Even though the cease fire may be accepted China will not stop her efforts
unless its glorious objectives are achieved.
5? Nigh -level Chinese Communist military officials say that the Taiwan problem
must be solved within 1951, either peacefully or by force.
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