CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 2003
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• Publication Date: September 8, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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2. PRESSURE GROWING FOR REDUCTION OF CHINA
TRADE CONTROLS (page 4)0
3o CANADA FAVORS EARLY RECOGNITION OF CHINESE
COMMUNIST REGIME (page 5)0'
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6~ COMMENT ON ANTI-GREEK RIOTING IN TURKEY
(page 8).
THE FORMOSA STRAITS
(page 9)
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2. PRESSURE GROWING FOR REDITCTION OF CHINA
TRADE CONTROLS
delegation in Paris. The .French p.ropasal to reduce
controls an trade with thQ Communist Far East to the
level of restrictions against the Soviet bloc is likely to
receive strong support from Japan, Denmark, and
Portugal Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg,
Norway, and Italy would probably continue to favor re-
duction of controls,
"Very few" COCOM members a.re
inclined to support retention of the
present strict controls over trade
with the Communist Far East, ac-
cording to the American COCOM
'T'urkey, probably Greece, anal possi-
bly Canada can be expected to follow the American lead
to maintain the status quo, Britain and West Germany
clearly favor reductionv but it is not clear how far they
will go in the face of American opposition.
Comment Barring a Far Eastern crisis, it
appears likely that a strong initiative
to abolish or reduce the China differential will dominate
the COCOM Consultative Group meeting later this year.
One effect of such a reduction would be to vitiate the UN
resolution of May 195]. prohibiting strategic trade with
Communist China and North Korea. This resolution is
based directly on the UN resolution of February 1951 de-
cla,ring Communist China an aggressor. The latter reso-
lution is a major obstacle to consi.deratian of Peiping's
membership in the UN~
The British and French are already
pressing for re-examination of controls on trade with the
entire Sino-Soviet bloc as a matter of urgency and regard-
less of the outcome of any international conferenceo
(Concurred in by ORR)
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3. CANADA FAVORS EARLY RECOGNITION OF CHINESE
COMMUNLST REGIME
lieves the Peiping regime should be recognized "sooner
rather than later," possibly in a yearn He said the ac-
tion should be taken, if only to obtain first-hand infor-
mation from Peipingo
Canadian external. affairs minister
Pearson has informed the United
States embassy in Ottawa that the
Canadian government strongly be-
Canada has no intention of pressing
for the admission of Communist China to the [TN now,
Pearson indicated9 and will probably support the United
States' position at the forthcoming General Assembly
session He said his own recent public statement favor-
ing admission of Peiping was a trial balloon4
Comment Canada has tended to favor establish-
ment of relations with the Chinese
Communists since early 1953a Pearson's remarks sug-
gest that Canada finds no substan'tis:l reasons for further
delay but will be guided as to timing by the views of
Britain and other countries whose general attitude it
shareso
Canada has indicated that it would
support a .Belgian proposal to establish a iTN study com-
mission on the Chinese representation issue
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6~ COMMENT ON ANTI-GREEK RIOT]NG IN TURKEY
The rioting in Istanbul and Izmir on
6 September indicates that the wide
breach which has developed in recent
months between Greece and Turkey at
the diplomatic level has spread to the
general public.
The riots were apparently spontaneous,
by or cheered the mob which was looting shopso Only later
did troops supported with tanks restore order.
ut the Ankara governrn.ent is searching for evidence of
Communist involvemento According to observations by the
American consul general in Ist~bul, the police -stood idly
Popular emotions now running high in
both Greece and Turkey will probably be sharply controlled
by the two governments. In relations between the countries,
however, antagonisms which have been created by the Cyrus
issue will increase mutual recriminations over other issues
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1. Militaxy activity in the area was extremely quiet
apart from increased artillery shelling begun on 2 Septem-
ber by the Chinese Nationalistsa The shelling rose to a
high on 4 September, when the Communists fired 253 rounds
and the Nationalists fired 1,358. The situation returned to
normal on 6 September This activity is not believed to si -
nify any impending attack by the Gommunistso
Report of the IAC Current Intelligence Group
for the Formosa Straits problem
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THE FORMOSA STRAITS
3~ Another Chinese Communist railway engineer divi-
sion (the Fifth Railway Engineer Division) has been identi-
fied and located in Fukien province. This makes a total of
six such divisions now accepted as engaged in construction
of the projected railway that will connect Amo with the main
trunk line south of the Yangtze River
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5. Peiping continued to devote only perfunctory at-
tention to the Formosa Strait question during the past two
weeks. However, the tone of Peiping propaganda dealing
with US policies in Asia became more critical than it had
been during the -early weeks of the talks at Geneva between
US and Chinese Communist representatives.
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