CURRENT INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1955/08/26

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• Document Creation Date: September 20, 2019
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2019
• Publication Date: August 26, 1955

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CONTENTS
1. CHOU EN-LAI EXPECTED TO VISIT EGYPT THIS
YEAR (page 3).
2. COMMENT ON CHINESE COMMUNIST PLANS FOR
SINKIANG "AUTONOMY" (page 4).
3. ITALIAN GOVERNMENT SEEN RELAXING PRESSURE
AGAINST COMMUNISTS (page 5).
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1. CHOU EN-LAI EXPECTED TO VISIT EGYPT THLS YEAR
Chou En-lai is expected to visit Egypt
before the end of the year, according
to an Egyptian government spokesman.
This would be the first visit by the
Chinese Communist premier to any country which does
not recognize the Peiping regime.
Ever since the Asian-African confer-
ence at Bandung last spring, where Chou and Egyptian
premier Nasr enjoyed close contacts, Cairo and Peiping
have both indicated an interest in diplomatic relations.
Egypt and Communist China have recently concluded agree-
ments providing for the barter of Egyptian cotton for Chi-
nese rolled steel.
Chou presumably hopes to gain Egyp-
tian recognition of the Chinese Communist government
and then to use Egyptian influence to induce Saudi Arabia
and Syria to follow suit. While Egypt has used the recog-
nition question as a device for seeking concessions from
the United States, eventual recognition of Peiping would be
in line with /Uses tendency to adopt a "neutralist" posi-
tion.
Chou's successes at Bandung suggested,
and the Egyptian announcement further indicates, that Chou
will play an increasingly important role in the Sino-Soviet
bloc's efforts to expand and strengthen "neutralism" in the
Near and Middle East.
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2. COMMENT ON CHINESE COMMUNIST PLANS FOR
SINKIANG "AUTONOMY"
Peiping has announced that Sinkiang
Province will be established as an
"autonomous region" at the provin-
cial congress next month. This province is larger by
far than any of the other numerous areas declared "auton-
omous" by Peiping because of their predominantly non-
Chinese populations.
Contrary to Chinese Nationalist asser-
tions that Peiping's action in effect cedes Sinkiang to the
Soviet Union, the Chinese Communists do not proclaim
any area "autonomous" until confident of their military
and political control of it. The Soviet Union, while prof-
iting through the receipt of large quantities of mineral
exports from Sinkiang, has apparently avoided interfer-
ence with the Chinese Communist administration of the
province.
Communist China's "autonomous"
regions do not have even the nominal right to secede.
Article 3 of Communist China's constitution states that
"all areas of national autonomy are inseparable parts of
the People's Republic of China," and Peiping has recently
announced that regulations for the new region will be en-
forced with "the assistance and guidance" of the central
government.
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3. ITALIAN GOVERNMENT SEEN RELAXING PRESSURE
AGAINST COMMUNISTS
the present
Italian government is relaxing pres-
sures against the Communist Party.
The government has canceled orders to close a Commu-
nist-controlled school and has reissued passports which
had been sequestered because Communists had used them
for illegal travel to iron curtain countries. Such actions
are considered a "logical" aftermath of the Geneva con-
ference.
Comment An anti-Communist program aimed
at depriving the Communist Party
and its affiliated labor unions of special privileges such
as rent-free use of government property was announced
with considerable fanfare by the Scelba government in
March and December 1954. Though not fully implemented,
the program had a noticeable impact in some areas.
Premier Segni has indicated that his
approach to the problem of Communism is different from
Scelbais. He has said he plans to attack the "causes rather
than the symptoms" of Communism by undertaking eco-
nomic reforms.
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