TERRITORIAL AND POWER EXPANSIONISM OF THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2002
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• Publication Date: December 10, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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The Ch-nose are undoubtedly gaining tremendous face from a victorious
assault against crack American trocros in Korea, regardless of the numorical
ratio between attackers and defenders and of losses in men.. This will more
than offset Communist umeopularity over the Chinese county siclo, and trill
make the dream of a powerful China, the master of Asia, a tantalizing
possibility at :.east to the leadership of the lower social levels, even
though it may not create a new ambition for the masses.
One immediate objective on the .part of the Chinese military leaders is
humiliation as complete as possible of General UacArthur0 There is no
thought of stopping at the 38th Pcrallol, As American tree_rs retreat
the Chinese may leave a way for them to escape., or they may head them off
from the sea. in order to make the supremely humiliating offer to MacArthur
of their repatriation. There have already been ezcarcples of their offering
to repatriate captured American trocps9 survivors of a fierce massacre. It
Will be remembered that in the final stages of the civil war on the mainland
the Chinese Communists began to show a reasonableness in taking such cities
as Peiping and a magnarninity toward Nationalist officers and troops., which
was really a kind of humiliation through conterpt0
The moral-force approach of the Indian Government and Indian leaders in their
.efforts to arbitrate the Korean war is as false as it was when attempted by
Kuomintang personages, such as tea CIIIANG Kai-shek when she hold that if
the Test would supply the material the Nationalists and other anti-Communist
Chinese would supply a superiority of morality. That the Inds should put
themselves forward as the benevolent, non-violent arbitrators between the
biased and self-centered contestants in this world struggle snovrs only the
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wcalmess and basic confusion of Indian society. The Chinese carrot be
ox ected to be sprayed at all by whet the Indians have to say. The Chinese
response to India's regret ever the invasion of Tibet is only another ;goof
of their - osition that Tibet is another suzerainty which they are reclaiming
ncwr that they have the strength
1 m The lrorid is ncn?r seeing China getting on its foot. The Chinese Cor~c?runist
solcliors- have shorm that they are good soldiers and can fight; it is,
moreover, a foreign misconce_ntion to believe that their fanaticism and
fierceness in battle is the result of taping opium.
5. Me Chinese Com unist ,)ro .ag again at American inporialis u: and their
running dogs is going down ycll with the people and furnishing; a moral
foundation for t-rar with the United States to the degree where the Chinese
leaders consider they not, have a holy war. the base,, of their charges
of American iixaorialisra go back to the declaration of the policy of the
on door, which they intorypl,et as meaning that the United States has
claimed the benefits of anything; over wrung from the Chinese, anC more
recently to United States grants of economic aid to the Iiationalist regime,
which is considered the nos t corrupt of all Chinese governnents, and which
aid wired out all semblance of indo ondence the country had.
6 Alliance with the Soviets furnishes China with the op-)ortunity to fulfill
her ambitions of territorial and over gain. The Soviets gain in the some
way. There is no question but that there is danger to the Chinese in Soviet
ex)ancion, but the Chinese will tape the chance, though not blindly. The
Soviets may be expected, on their -dart, to play a very cautious role in
China, .aping full allowance for long-existent and. well identified Chinese
sensitivities. If Ch !na were siVly the slave of the USSP the American
position would be simplifiod. A China trig., its porn ambitions, with strength,
and acting in concert with the UEST is a different matter.
7. Observing the Chinese Communist Govarnr?ent's relations with established
foreign trade in. China leads to the conclusion that they would cut off
all foreign trade without co unction if they so desired. It may be that
economic independence is a basic aim; of the Chinese Camriunis Ue. Shanghai
may be a dead city, Tientsin in difficulties, but the country at largo is
getting along well. Industrialization will eventually come; the. Chinese
are probably planning to use the Jq.)anose, whose efficiency in this field
has boon proved in !".anchuria. The Ch::necc a---c confident that Ja psan Trill
ultimately come over, since J^ San is economically tied to Asia., and the
United States cannot or will not su--nol-t the Jananoso ?co-)lo as they must
if Japan. cannot trade with the r:ra.inlr nc'.a
IIo In conclusion it must be added that many Chinese have been, confused by the
-)icture of China nau and in the icriodiato east, as much as, or more than
the A moricans. reports from China have often aeon contradictory. It is
possible that the Chinese Corr!unist leaders have boon able to conceal their
territorial ambitions successfully., to be brought out only as they develop.
At the first demonstration of substantial (?ain in territory and paotirer the
reaction of the Chinese Peo7le will certainly be to jw) on the banc.tragon.
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