PEKING'S APPROACH TO NEGOTIATION Selected Writings COMPILED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS (Pursuant to S. Res. 24, 91st Cong.) OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE LAW LIBRARY APRI 1969 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Operations 26-365 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1969 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 - Price 45 cents FOREWORD In our ongoing study of the effectiveness of this country's national security methods, staffing and processes, we thought it would be useful to understand more fully the negotiating methods of Communist China. The subcommittee staff, therefore, was requested to prepare a short selection of instructive materials on Peking's approach to international negotiation, drawing on Western and Chinese Communist sources. A companion collection entitled "The Soviet Approach to Negotiation: Selected Writings" was recently issued by the subcommittee. A number of informed accounts of Peking's attitude toward negotiation have been published in the Western world, and a selection from the more revealing assessments is presented here. The authors of these papers represent a variety of backgrounds in Far Eastern affairs. Some have dealt with Peking as officials and negotiators; others are scholarly analysts of Chinese policy or have had personal experience inside Red China. We wish to thank the authors and publishers for their cooperation in granting permission to reprint these writings. Long before the Communists came to power, of course, the Chinese had viewed negotiation as a form of struggle against the West and had practiced "arms-length diplomacy," keeping Westerners segregated, far from the policy-makers in Peking. As an example, we have included an excerpt from the account by Maurice Collis of the negotiations conducted at Canton with Lord Napier, representative of the British Government, in the 1830's. While such accounts and appraisals seem to provide the best available guidance on Peking's attitude toward negotiation, certain Chinese Communist materials can be a useful supplement. Included in this compilation, therefore, is a sampling of significant statements coming out of Peking which reveal the positions of Mao Tse-tung, his associates and other adherents. In preparing this selection we consulted with a number of distinguished analysts of Chinese Communist affairs and we are obliged to them for their advice and suggestions. HENRY M. JACKSON, Chairman, Subcommittee on National Security MARCH 10, 1969. and International Operations. |