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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-00915R000600220003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: MISC

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r Headquarters' ~.-ie*s that the 2f'th
the-Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
gnificance for the Com.unists and that it is a
cal and di:ciplinary' crisis affecting the
attrmi.st movement. It also demonstrates the extreme
rtance which the Co m=ists attach to the preservation of their inter-
nationl solidarity*
2, The ata ementt,, in our opinion,, must be a onstrued 'in the
light of the mounting, tensions in oe aunist relations which had pr.o-
ceded it and also tho econo ,i.c and material dependence of China upon
the Soviet Union.
3,, Although the statement as :ears to havc= been primarily in-
tended to counter `PTO's PULA speech, it is of special interest as
affording instance of they Chinese Coe nist Party Asserting its
right to pronounce with authority, and as an equal partner with the
Oommunist Party of the Soviet Union, upon the lirectiion of the Inter-
national Communist mCtve, ant, This new status, and the fact that MAO,
1 se-fiun seems to have no serious theoretical rival in the Soviet Union,
suggest that Chinese ' of .uence upon international C sm 'nist theor?? will
increase,
China's economic and material reliance upon the soviet Union,
h ver, has clearly diota'~-*,l the subordination of her own national
interests to the preser= aation of Si Soviet solidarity and we feel that
these over-riding considerations prev!Mt the extraction from the
state nt Of any -.;slid ideological conoluaions an a long term basis.
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At present, hr veer, it appears that the Chinese Ccamunist
oncorned more, with Muting disastrous tendencies rather than
producin no-el theories or techniques.
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