RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SINO-JAPANESE RELATIONS AFFECTING THE NORMALIZATION NEGOTIATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-504-7-21-1
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2012
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: August 18, 1972
• Content Type: CABLE

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TOPSECRET 180122Z AUG 72 VIA BUNKER CHANNELS
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FROM: SITUATION ROOM
TO: PETER RODMAN FOR DR. KISSINGER
CITE: WHS 2 138
TO: MR. KISSINGER
FROM: ALEXANDER M. HAIG, JR.
SUBJECT: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SINO-JAPANESE RELATIONS AFFECTING
THE NORMALIZATION NEGOTIATIONS
FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF RECENT STATE REPORTS ON DEVELOP-.
MENTS IN SINO-JAPANESE RELATIONS AFFECTING THE PROCESS OF
POLITICAL NORMALIZATION BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES. THIS MATERIAL
HAD BEEN PUT TOGETHER BY DICK SOLOMON AND JACK FROEBE.
CHOU EN-LAI CONVERYS AIR OF FLEXIBILITY TO JAPANESE LEADERS
CHOU EN-LAI APPARENTLY HAS COMMUNICATED HIS GENERAL POSITION
ON THE NEGOTIATIONS TO NORMALIZE SINO-JAPANESE RELATIONS TO THE
TANAKA GOVERNMENT VIA KOMEITO PARTY CHAIRMAN TAKEIRI, WHO
VISITED PEKING BETWEEN JULY 25 AND AUGUST 3. TAKEIRI HELD MORE
THAN TEN HOURS OF TALKS WITH PREMIER CHOU.
CHOU'S POSITION, AS RELAYED THROUGH THIS INTERMEDIARY, WAS
THAT JAPAN AND THE PRC SHOULD SIGN A TWO PART AGREEMENT, ONE
PART PUBLIC, AND ONE PART SECRET. THE PUBLIC DECLARATrON WOULD
INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING POINTS:
--JAPAN AND THE PRC WOULD ANNOUNCE THEIR INTENTION TO OPEN
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS.
--THE PRC WOULD UNILATERALLY ANNOUNCE THAT IT ACKNOWLEDGED
THE END OF A STATE OF WAR WITH JAPAN, AND THAT IT CLAIMED NO
WAR REPARATIONS.
--JAPAN WOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THE PRC AS THE SOLE, LEGITIMATE
GOVERNMENT OF CHINA, ACCEPT THE FIVE PRINCIPLES OF PEACEFUL
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JAPAN-REPUBLIC OF CHINA PEACE TREATY (PRESUMABLY DECLARING ITHVL
RZNGER IN EFFECT).
CHOU ADDED THAT IT MIGHT BE POSSIBLE TO CONCLUDE A FORMAL
TREATY OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP WHICH COULD INCLUDE ECONOMIC
AND TRADE AGREEMENTS.
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NO INTENT ION OF RAISING QUESTIONS OF MAKING STATEMENTS ABOUT
THE US-JAPAN MUTUAL SECURITY TREATY. CHOU ALSO REQUESTED
THAT T AKEIR I TELL PRIME MINISTER TANAKA AND FOREIGN MINISTER
OHIRA THAT WISHED TO RECEIVE THEIR VIEWS ON HIS PROPOSALS
AND THAT FROM NOW ON HE WANTED TO DEAL WITH THEM DIRECTLY,
RATHER THAN THROUGH INTERMEDIARIES FROM OPPOSITION PARTIES.
THE JAPANESE FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIAL WHO RELAYED THIS INFORMATION
TO OFFICERt OF OUR TOKYO EMBASSY EXPRESSED THE VIEW THAT
CHOU' S POSITION REVEALED CONSIDERABLE FLEXIBILITY IN THE ARC' S
POSITION. SUCH FLEXIBILITY WAS ALSO INFERRED FROM REPEATED
RECENT FAILURES ON THE PART OF CHINESE LEADERS TO RAISE
PUBLICLY THE THREE PRECONDITIONS FOR NORMALIZATION WHICH HAD
BEEN STRESSED SO MUCH DURING PRIME MINISTER SATO' S TENURE.
sIN RECENT PUBLIC STATEMENTS THE TANAKA GOVERNMENT HAS MADE
CLEAR BOTH THE IT INTENDS TO BREAK DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH
TAIPEI AND THAT IT WILL NOT PREJUDICE ITS RELATIONS WITH THE
U.S. IN NORMALIZING ITS DEALINGS WITH PEKING, MOST IMPORTANTLY
ITS OBLIGAT IONS UNDER THE MUTUAL SECURITY TREATY. IT HAS CARE-
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FULLY LEFT AMBIFUOUS THE QUESTION OF ABROGATING THE 1952
RbC-JAPAN PEACE TREATY, STOPPING AT STATING THAT IT "FULLY
UNDERSTANDS" THE PRC.POSITION ON THIS POINT. ( NEVERTHELESS,
IN VIEW OF CHOU' S INDICATED FLEXIBILITY ON THIS ISSUE IT
DOES NOT SEEM THAT THIS SHOULD BE A MAJOR siirnman POTAIT..)
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BR OUGHT BACK BY T AKEIR I ALSO SAID
/T HAT JAPAN HAD ASKED THE PRC TO
RECEIVE EARLY IN SEPTEMBER AN ADVANCE JAPANESE NEGOTIATING
TEAM COMPOSED OF LDP LEADERS AND FOREIGN OFFICE OFFICIALS.
THE OFFICIAL INDICATED, HOWEVER, THAT THE DELEGATION WOULD
PROBABLY BE LARGE, AS MANY LDP LEADERS, FACING THE PROSPECT
OF AN EARLY ELECTION, WOULD WANT TO PARTICIPATE. THIS
OBVIOUSLY COULD SERIOUSLY REDUCE THE EFFECTIVENESS
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THESE REPORTS CONFIRM OTHER INDICATIONS SINCE TANAKA' S
ACCESSION OF THE PR C" S EAGERNESS TO MOVE SWIFTLY IN NORMALIZING
RELATIONS, AS WELL AS THE TANAKA GOVERNMENT'S RECOGNITION OF
THE MUCH STRONGER POSIT ION THAT JAPAN IS NOW IN AS IT APPROACHES
THE NEGOTIATIONS.
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