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[New China News Agency (NCNA), Peking, May 28 and November 26, 1968, and February 18, 1969]

PEKING'S VIEW OF THE AMBASSADORIAL TALKS

1968-69

New China News Agency Transmission from Peking
May 28, 1968

As the Chinese Ambassador will not be able to return to his post for the time being and as there is nothing to discuss at present, Chargé d'Affaires Ad Interim Chen Tung of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Poland was instructed to write on 18 May to Ambassador John A. Gronouski, U.S. Representative at the Sino-U.S. ambassadorial talks, proposing that the 135th meeting of the SinoU.S. ambassadorial talks scheduled on 29 May 1968 be postponed until the middle of November or late November, the specific date to be decided upon later through consultation.

Peking Foreign Ministry Statement
November 26, 1968

On November 18, the U.S. State Department press officer and the U.S. Embassy in Poland issued statements in which they did their utmost to distort the fact and divulged the discussions between China and the United States about the date of the 135th meeting of the Sino-U.S. ambassadorial talks, falsely accusing the Chinese side of having no intention of holding the meeting as scheduled and failing over a long period of time to respond to the U.S. proposal. In this connection, the spokesman of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China has been instructed to refute as follows:

1. The position of the Chinese side on the date of the 135th meeting of the Sino-U.S. ambassadorial talks has been consistent and explicit and is in conformity with the principle of reaching agreement through consultation between the two sides. The 135th meeting of the Sino-U.S. ambassadorial talks was originally scheduled for May 29. On May 18, the Chinese side suggested that the meeting be postponed till the middle of November or late November, and the U.S. side later agreed to this suggestion. Since then, the Chinese side has not changed its view. It is utterly groundless and most absurd for the U.S. side to assert that the Chinese side has no intention of acting upon its own proposal.

2. The U.S. side has played a host of tricks on the date of this meeting. In its letter of September 12, it wanted to fix the date

of the meeting rigidly for November 20. On November 8, it gave an oral notice demanding that the Chinese side reply to its suggestion of September 12 within a time limit of five days. This is a typical imperialist attitude. Furthermore, on November 15, it sent over a written notice, in which it groundlessly "assumed” that China has no intention of acting upon its original proposal and suggested that the meeting be postponed till February 5 or 11 next year. Without waiting for a reply from the Chinese side, the U.S. Government unilaterally announced on November 18 a postponement of the meeting in violation of the principle of reaching agreement through consultation. It must be pointed out that the days when U.S. imperialism can ride roughshod over the world and order others about are long gone, never to return. It is a sheer pipe dream to expect that the Chinese Government will accept such insolence from U.S. imperialism!

3. What is the aim of the U.S. side in putting up such a singular performance within a short space of ten days? Evidently, the US. Government has no intention whatsoever to hold the Sino-U.S. ambassadorial talks within this year, but is trying hard to postpone the 135th meeting of the Sino-U.S. ambassadorial talks till February next year while shifting the responsibility for the postponement onto the Chinese side. To put it bluntly, this is because the United States is going to change its president, and the U.S. Government is now in a stage wherein the incoming is superseding the outgoing; hence it must try to drag on until the present period is over.

4. Actually why should the U.S. side have taken the trouble of doing all this? Since you find it necessary to postpone the meeting, say it outright! The Chinese side can give consideration to it. Chen Tung, charge d'affaires a. i. of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Poland, already wrote to the U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mr. Walter J. Stoessel, Jr. on November 25, making a concrete suggestion that the two sides might as well meet on February 20 next year. By that time, the new U.S. president will have been in office for a month, and the U.S. side will probably be able to make up its mind.

5. Over the past 13 years, the Chinese Government has consistently adhered to the following two principles in the Sino-U.S. ambassadorial talks: first, the U.S. Government undertakes to immediately withdraw all its armed forces from China's territory Taiwan Province and the Taiwan Straits area and dismantle all its military installations in Taiwan Province; second, the U.S. Government agrees that China and the United States conclude an agreement on the five principles of peaceful coexistence. But in the past 13 years, while refusing all along to reach an agreement with the Chinese Government on these two principles, the U.S. Government, putting the cart before the horse, has kept on haggling over side issues. The Chinese Government has repeatedly told the U.S. side in explicit terms that the Chinese Government will never barter away principles. If the U.S. side continues its current practice, no result whatsoever will come of the SinoU.S. ambassadorial talks no matter which administration assumes office in the United States.

Peking Foreign Ministry Statement
February 18, 1969

On February 6, 1969, the spokesman of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China issued a statement, sternly condemning the U.S. Government and lodging a strong protest with it against the grave anti-China incident it has deliberately engineered in collusion with the Netherlands Government, in which a former member of the Chinese diplomatic mission in the Netherlands Liao Ho-shu was incited to betray his country and carried off to the United States by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. This undeniable crime against China committed by the U.S. Government has aroused the boundless indignation of the entire Chinese people.

However, far from restraining itself in the least, the U.S. Government has thereafter become even more unbridled in carrying out its anti-China schemes. Ignoring the Chinese Government's strong protest and refusing to accept the Chinese Government's just demand, it has continued to slander China and make shameless denials. What merits particular attention is that the U.S. Government is plotting, in collusion with the Chiang Kai-shek bandit gang, to send Liao Hoshu to Taiwan with a view to creating further anti-China incidents. All this once again enables the people of China and the rest of the world to see clearly the vicious features of the Nixon administration of the United States, which has inherited the mantle of the preceding U.S. Government in flagrantly making itself the enemy of the 700 million Chinese people.

In this regard the spokesman of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China is instructed to state formally: The Chinese Government considers that in the current anti-China atmosphere, which is solely created by the U.S. Government, it is obviously most unsuitable to hold the 135th meeting of the Sino-U.S. ambassadorial talks on February 20 as scheduled.

Chen Tung, charge d'affaires a.i. of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Poland, has already conveyed the above notification in a letter to the U.S. ambassador to Poland, Walter Stoessel.*

*NOTE BY SUBCOMMITTEE STAFF.-In response to Peking's cancellation of the February 20 meeting of the Ambassadorial Talks, Secretary of State Rogers made the following statement on February 18, 1969:

We are disappointed that the Chinese Communists canceled the meeting scheduled in Warsaw for Thursday. We especially regret this action inasmuch as our representative had been instructed to make or renew constructive suggestions. These suggestions included consideration of an agreement on peaceful coexistence consistent with our treaty obligations in the area, the subject of exchange of reporters, scholars, scientists, and scientific information, and the regularization of postal and telecommunication problems. We continue to stand ready to meet with the Chinese Communists at any time. The charges made by the Chinese Communists that the U.S. had engineered the defection of Liao Ho-shu are untrue.

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