CAMBODIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-262-4-26-8
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: November 22, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/06/29: LOC-HAK-262-4-26-8
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SUBJECT CAMBODIA
NOVEMBER 22, 1974
1. IN PREPARATION FOR YOUR PEKING VISIT WE HAVE BEEN CONSIDERING
CAREFULLY WHAT MIGHT !JSEF!ULLH BF SAID CONCERNING CAMP.OD1A,
AND HAVE FOUND THAT THE STICKING POINT IN ANY ASSESSMENT I{:'E
"AY MAYE IS UNCERTAINTY OVER W)4, THER OR NOT CHINESE HAVE ANY
REAL INCENTIVE TO WANT THE FIGHTING IN CAMBODIA BROUGHT TO
A-. CLOSE SHORT OF A COMPLETE COMMUNIST VICTORY. WE HAVE SEEN
THING CONCLUSIVE. IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN TO SUGGEST THAT SUCH
AN INCENTIVE EXISTS OTHER THAN THEIR EDITING OF CERTAIN SIHANOUK
E'T41 ^MENNTS TO ELIMINATE DEROGATORY REFU BY KIM TO
' COALITIOW GOVFPNMENT" AND "TALKS" (REFERENCES TO THE 1_UATIONS
WORM D OUT IN LAOS AND SOUTH VIETNAM), WHILE . ON THE OTHER HAND
THE H'INESF HAVE PUBLICLY SUPPORTED BOTH KH-TlU SAMEPAN AND
SIHANOU IN CALLING FOR A COMPLETE DEFEAT OF THE LON NOL
GOVERNMENT. NOR HAS THERE BEEN ANYTHING. OF A PRIVATE NATURE
WHICH TO US APPEARS INDICATIVE OF A CHINESE HOPE TO SEE THE
E~'IGHTING ENDED VIA A POLITICAL SOLUTION OF SOME SORT. AS YOU
YNOW, THE CHINESE HAVE EVEN TURNED OFF SENATOR MAN 'r IEL'D
FPO+"1 VISITING CHINA IN ORDER TO LAY AT REST ANY PINT THAT A
POLITIC:AL. ARRANGEMENT COULD BE IN THE MAKING.
HOWEVER, THERE 15 A STRONG FEELING AMONG CERTAIN OF OUR
'O.1?LLEAGUES IN THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS }ERE, WITH RICH WE TEND
TO AGRE' , THAT TEE CHINESE DO IN FACT WANT. TO SEE A DDJEGC)TIATED
SETTLE,"'ENT IN CAMBODIA BECAUSE IT WOULD BE THE SOLE MEANS
OF PREVENTING THE NORTH VIETNAMESE FROM DOMINATING CAMBODIA,
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INSTRUCTIONS APPLY
AND PERHAPS ULTIMATELY ALL OF INDOCHINA. A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT
ABOUT THIS POINT IN TIME WOULD ALSO F37, THE LLY WAY THAT A
t?ITIC'l OF SOME I F RTAN"r? FOR, ',I1-t;~r~rrV COULD E . r. FIRED IN
A POST-HC)STILITIF"S CAMBODIA. (STHANOUK'S CHARM }JPS PROBABLY
WORN 07F AS FAR AS THE CHINESE ARE CONCERNED, BUT HE IS STILL
T tEIR `r.L'OY AND THEY ARE STUCKWITH HIM.) THE LOGIC OF EVENTS'
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No Objection to Declassification in Part 2010/06/29: LOC-HAK-262-4-26-8
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