CABLE TO BRENT SCOWCROFT FROM DAVID BRUCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-506-8-71-3
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2010
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: April 3, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Full 2010/09/17: LOC-HAK-506-8-71-3
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Tr : BRENNT SCOWCROFT
Ff?OM: DAVID BRUCE
RFGIA.S!'1MMARY .- VICE FONMI,. CHIr-,O KI..JAN--?UA SAID THERE HAS r3EEN
ton RASIr CHANGE IN U,S.-PRr REL?TIDNS DESPITE SOME MINOR
PROBLEMS WHICH NATURALLY A;~:ISE. uE SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED THE
UMGEP APPOINTMENT TO TAIPEI AND EXPANSION CSC GRC CONSULAR
ACILITIES IN THE U.S. HE APPEARPO CONCERN~=O A OUT EUROPEA
Pr,,0r i,EMS.o ANn I GAVE NIM Mv/ VIEWS BASED ON Y RECENT VISITS
TO wASHT!NGTONs LONDON ANn PARIS. HE ENCOURt.GED CONTINUED
U,S.EFF'OR.TS TOWARD A MIDOt..E EAST PEACE SETTLEMENT AND WARNmD
TWAT THE USSR,WOULO PROFIT FROM A U.S. PAIL'HPF IN THE AREA.
THE OTT,, SOVIET THEME RAN THROUcH%T CHIAO' REMARKS, AND AT
GHEE POI~~ T HE PRQ0UNCED TH,-M THE MOST PERFIDIOUS PEOPLE IN
THE WORLD. CHIAO HAD LITTLE TO SAY LIN THE SPECIAL UNGA, BUi
MORI/CDF
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VOLUNTEPRED HE PLANNED TO STAY ONLY THE FIRI:T WEEK OF THE SESSION.
Jr. PfSSIBLE, HE - HOPES ;TO S, "F THE SECRETARY ')URING THAT TIME,
f?aD SUMMARY
!N APRIL 2..I HAD VICE FO MIN CHIAD K':iA~i-HUA FOR DINNER
AT HOME ALPNG WITH AMERICA; AND OCFANEAN (DI`/ISInN CHIEF
L tN; P' ING, C'HAE"J CHI-HUA AN" SHE ! JO-YUN OF -FA. ALSO PRESF,,,,T
qi,, THE i1.S. SIDE WERE DC'S JENKINS AND HOLD.2IDGF AND POLITICAL SECTION
C +IFF ANDERSON. THI$ OCCASION w~+AS CIPPO? TUN;'= TO MARK MY RET'IRN TO
P,'=KTNG AND C,H.IAO'S IM'MINFN? DEPARTURE FOR T. ,E SPECIAL UNGA
Sr.=SSION IN" NEW YORK. HE W^S IN G-5100 FORM, Nrl THE CONVERSATION
WAS ALMOST ENTIRELY SUBSTATIVE THROUGHOUT THE EVENING.
a. t'HIAO''S REMARKS ON .,.S.-PR(' RELATIONS AND THE QUESTION OF
TAIWAN WERE 'INTERESTING. REFPRPED TO THE LOREN JENKINS
Ai?TTCLE ON DECLINING SING-iI.S. RELATIONS IN THE APRIL 1
ISSUE O'F NEWSWEEK, AND ASK,:n IF TAE REMARKS ATTRIBUTED TO
PPE41ER CHOU EN-LAI WERE ACCURATELY REPfIRTE". CHIAO DID NOT
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4NSWFR THE Ql.JFSTION DIRECTI Y, PUT SAID MUCH OF THE PRESS
SOECULATION ON THIS S,J43JEC HAD ;,':FN INACCURATE. SINO-U.S.
RFLATIONS, HE SAID, CONTlN,rED Tn! ,,E GOUD. ;.aE AGREED WITH
WWAT 1 HAD TOLD THE PRESS . T PE,(It,.iG AIRPORT ON 1Y RETURN TO
THE EFFECT THATI WAS UNAWARF 0;, ANY DETERIORATION IN U.S._PRC
RFLATIG~NS. Hr1WEVER, AS WITH EVERY OTHER MISSION IN PEKING,
CPRTAIN MINOR PRUBLEWS ARIcF FRAM TIME TO TTME.
6SKEO TO RE SPEECIFIC, C,IAD CITED THE APc)PINTMENT OF LEo!IARD
UN+GFQ AS AMBASSADOR TO TAIPEI Aror) THE EXPANSION OF GRC CON i.?LAR
HE STRESSED
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THAT THFSF DPCISIONS WERE ;,+OT OF r;RFAT IMPr?TANCE IN THEMSELVES,
80T SAIr) IT WAS DIFFICULT P-OR THE CHINESE PEOPLE TO UNDERSTt.ND
T! FSE A(;TIFINS WHILE THE U.s., AT THE SAM,E TIME, SAYS IT WANTS
In TVPR?OVF RELATIONS WITH THE PRC.
. CHIAO SAID THE l)NIT,,--D STS+TFS
IS
CONFPONTEO WITH A Pnt ITICAL/
IFGAL DILEMMA.. LEGALLY, A~ Lr)NrG AS
THE
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