THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 4 FEBRUARY 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977281
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: February 4, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
4 February 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
4 February 1970,
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
In K'un-ming, capital of Yunnan province, serious
civil disturbances have forced local Chinese-author-
ities to impose martial law. (Page 2)
Hungarian party leader Kadar's visit to East Germany
last week may only have sharpened differences betweerL
the two countries,- (Page 3)
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Recent messages confirm our belief that many of
the smaller groups are composed of specialist person-
nel. Several groups of less than 100 were described
by infiltration stations in Laos as containing sap-
pers, civil administrators, propaganda specialists,
and communications experts.
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COMMUNIST CHINA
Martial law has been imposed in K'un-ming, the
capital of Yunnan Province, following serious civil
disturbances. 31 Janu-
ary a demonstration in K'un-ming degenerated into a
riot. It appears that army elements responsible for
public security in the immediate area were unable to
control the disturbance and had to be reinforced by
local Red Guards and militia units. Some of the ri-
oters were executed on the spot.
This is one of the most serious incidents
noted anywhere in China since late last
summer, when the army began a nationwide
crackdown on civil disorders. The campaign
was largely successful; there have been few
reports of armed fighting in the last sev-
eral months. Renewed outbreaks of violence
in places like Yunnan, however, underscore
the regime's inability to enforce a lasting
settlement in a number of provinces.
In Yunnan--as in some of China's other un-
settled provinces--the major cause of in-
stability is political infighting that ex-
tends into the highest levels of provincial
authority. The head of Yunnan's Revolution-
ary Committee (i.e. the governing authority)
has rarely appeared in public in the past
year, which could indicate that he has not
been able to consolidate his control. We
do not know yet what triggered the latest
incident, but the appearance of Red Guards
on the scene suggests that factionalism is
behind the disorder.
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EAST GERMANY - HUNGARY
Nothing,constructiVe,came out of Hungarian party
leader Kadar's visit to East Germany last week-. The
two countries are no closer together on West Germany
or on Brandt's "ostpolitik." The Hungarians were_not
shaken- in their plan to respond to Bonn's initiatives,,
and the West German press reported that the Hungarians
have sweetened up their bid for an expansion, of West
German - Hungarian' trade with offers of concessions'
in:customs duties and taxes.
The East Germans1 understandably piqued, have.
published a:statement that no socialist country would,
forget its obligations to its alliance partners just
for "fair words" from Bonn.
It seems Kadar's trip not only, failed to
improve relations between the two social-
ist allies; it evidently has made things
worse. Before the visit, the Hungari'ans
had gone to great lengths to accommodate
the East Germans, especially on the ques-
tion of responding to West Germany.
Kadar's hand has been strengthened, how-
ever, by the Warsaw Pact meeting in De-
cember, which blessed the idea of improv-
ing relations with Bonn. The Hungarians
are freer to let relations with Pankow
deteriorate if they must rather than forgo
the opportunities Brandt is offering.
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