APPENDIXES APPENDIX A ITINERARY OF THE VISIT OF THE HONORABLE MIKE MANSFIELD MAJORITY LEADER, UNITED STATES SENATE TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, DECEMBER 9-30, 1974 Monday, December 9, 1974 Afternoon: (1) Arrived in Shanghai. (2) Attended working luncheon hosted by the Foreign Affairs Group of the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee followed by a tour of Shanghai. (3) Departed for Peking via Chinese commercial airlines (CAAC). Evening: Arrived in Peking. Tuesday, December 10 Morning: Visited Peking University. Lunch: Attended working luncheon at the International Club, hosted by Mr. Chou Chi-yeh, Vice-Director, Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs; also attended by Vice Foreign Minister Wang Hai-jung. Afternoon: Met with Foreign Minister Ch'iao Kuan-hua. Evening: Attended working dinner hosted by Foreign Minister Ch'iao Kuan hua. Wednesday, December 11 Morning: (1) Met with Ambassador Etienne Manac'h, French Ambassador to the People's Republic of China. (2) Received a briefing from the staff of the United States Liaison Office. Afternoon: Inspected operations of the Peking Number One Tapestry Factory. Evening: Attended reception hosted by John Holdridge, Acting Chief, U.S. Liaison Office, followed by a tour of Ambassador Bush's residence. Thursday, December 12 Morning: (1) Visited the Peking Arts and Crafts Factory. (2) Met with Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping in the Great Hall of the People followed by a luncheon hosted by the Vice Premier. Afternoon: Met with Premier Chou En-lai at hospital. Friday, December 13 Afternoon: Met with Foreign Minister Ch'iao Kuan-hua. Evening: Attending working dinner hosted by Mr. Chou Chi-yeh, Vice-Director, Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs. Saturday, December 14 Morning: (1) Departed for Cheng-chou, Honan Province. (2) Arrived in Cheng-chou. (3) Visited the Cheng-chou Textile Machine Plant. Afternoon: Members of Mission visited the Yellow River Exhibition showing methods of controlling the Yellow River followed by a visit to the Yellow River. Evening: Members of Mission attended a working dinner hosted by the Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee for Honan Province, followed by a cultural performance. Sunday, December 15 Afternoon: Departed for Hsin-hsiang by car. Enroute visited the Chi Li Yeng Commune. (37) Monday, December 16 Morning: Toured rural areas of Huihsien County. Afternoon: Departed Hsin-hsiang by train for Lo-yang. Tuesday, December 17 Morning: Visited Lo-yang Tractor Factory. Afternoon: Visited Lung Men Cave area on Yi River, followed by a tour of the Lo-yang Museum. Evening: (1) Departed by train for Cheng-chou. (2) Arrived Cheng-chou. Wednesday, December 18 Afternoon: (1) Departed Cheng-chou by plane for Yenan, Shensi Province, via Sian (change of plane in Sian). (2) Visited various sites where Chairman Mao Tse-tung lived or worked from 1937 to 1947. Thursday, December 19 Morning: Visited additional historic sites in Yenan. Afternoon (1) Departed Yenan by plane for Kuei-lin via Sian (change of plane in Sian). (2) Arrived Kuei-lin, Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region, Friday, December 20 Morning and Afternoon: Had discussions with local officials concerning the Kwei-lin area, followed by tour of various points of interest. Evening: Attended working dinner hosted by official of the Kuei-lin Revolutionary Committee. Saturday, December 21 Morning and Afternoon: Toured the countryside and visited communes and other points of interest in the Kuei-lin area. Evening: Attended a cultural performance. Sunday, December 22 Morning: (1) Departed Kuei-lin via plane for Nan-ning, capital of the Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region. (2) Arrived Nan-ning. Afternoon: Met with local officials for further discussions on the handling of national minorities in the Region.. Evening: Attended working dinner given by official of the Kwangsi Chuang Revolutionary Committee, followed by a program featuring folk songs and dancing by national minorities. Monday, December 23 Morning and Afternoon: Toured rural areas in the vicinity of Nan-ning, including a visit to the Double Bridge Commune and discussions with officials of Wu-ming County. Tuesday, December 24 Morning: (1) Departed Nan-ning via plane for Kun-ming, Yunnan Province. (2) Arrived in Kun-ming. (3) Toured the Institute of National Minorities. Afternoon: Visited the Kun-ming Industrial Exhibition of Yunnan Province. Evening: Attended working dinner hosted by an official of the Revolutionary Committee of Yunnan Province. Wednesday, December 25 Morning and Afternoon: Toured national minority rural areas and visited the Stone Forest Park. Thursday, December 26 Morning: Visited historic and scenic sites in Kun-ming area. Friday, December 27 Morning: (1) Departed Kun-ming for Kuang-chou (Canton), Kwangtung Province. (2) Arrived in Kuang-chou. Afternoon: Toured the countryside in Kwangtung Province; stayed overnight at Chung Hwa. Saturday, December 28 Morning: Returned to Kuang-chou; en route inspected the Lui Hsi Ho power plant and dam. Afternoon: Toured the Kuang-chou Trade Exposition (Canton Trade Fair). Evening: Attended working dinner hosted by officials of Kwangtung Province, followed by a cultural performance. Sunday, December 29 Morning: Visited the Peasant Movement Institute founded by Chairman Mao. Evening: Hosted dinner for our Chinese hosts, who had accompanied the party during its travels. Monday, December 30 Morning: (1) Departed Kuang-chou via train for Shumchun station at border. (2) Arrived at Shumchun station and crossed border to Lo Wu station, Hong Kong. APPENDIX C SHANGHAI: JOINT COMMUNIQUE Text of the Joint Statement Issued at the Conclusion of the President Nixon's Visit to the People's Republic of China, February 27, 1972 President Richard Nixon of the United States of America visited the People's Republic of China at the invitation of Premier Chou En-lai of the People's Republic of China from February 21 to February 28, 1972. Accompanying the President were Mrs. Nixon, U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers, Assistant to the President Dr. Henry Kissinger, and other American officials. President Nixon met with Chairman Mao Tse-tung of the Communist Party of China on February 21. The two leaders had a serious and frank exchange of views on Sino-U.S. relations and world affairs. During the visit, extensive, earnest and frank discussions were held between President Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai on the normalization of relations between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China, as well as on other matters of interest to both sides. In addition, Secretary of State William Rogers and Foreign Minister Chi Peng-fei held talks in the same spirit. President Nixon and his party visited Peking and viewed cultural, industrial and agricultural sites, and they also toured Hangchow and Shanghai where, continuing discussions with Chinese leaders, they viewed similar places of interest. The leaders of the People's Republic of China and the United States of America found it beneficial to have this opportunity, after so many years without contact, to present candidly to one another their views on a variety of issues. They reviewed the international situation in which important changes and great upheavals are taking place and expounded their respective positions and attitudes. The U.S. side stated: Peace in Asia and peace in the world requires efforts both to reduce immediate tensions and to eliminate the basic causes of conflict. The United States will work for a just and secure peace: just, because it fulfills the aspirations of peoples and nations for freedom and progress; secure, because it removes the danger of foreign aggression. The United States supports individual freedom and social progress for all the peoples of the world, free of outside pressure or intervention. The United States believes that the effort to reduce tensions is served by improving communications between countries that have different ideologies so as to lessen the risks of confrontation through accident, miscalculation or misunderstanding. Countries should treat each other with mutual respect and be willing to compete peacefully, letting performance be the ultimate judge. No country should claim infallibility and each country should be prepared to re-examine its own attitudes for the common good. The United States stressed that the peoples of Indochina should be allowed to determine their destiny without outside intervention; its constant primary objective has been a negotiated solution; the eight-point proposal put forward by the Republic of Vietnam and the United States on January 27, 1972 represents a basis for the attainment of that objective; in the absence of a negotiated settlement the United States envisages the ultimate withdrawal of all U.S. forces from the region consistent with the aim of self-determination for each country of Indochina. The United States will maintain its close ties with and support for the Republic of Korea; the United States will support efforts of the Republic of Korea to seek a relaxation of tension and increased communications in the Korean peninsula. The United States places the highest value on its friendly relations with Japan; it will continue to develop the existing close bonds. Consistent with the United Nations Security Council Resolution of December 21, 1971, the United States favors the continuation of the ceasefire between India and Pakistan and the withdrawal of all military forces to within their own territories and to their own sides of the ceasefire line in Jammu and Kashmir; the United States supports the right of the peoples of South Asia to shape their own future in peace, free of military threat, and without having the area become the subject of great power rivalry. The Chinese side stated: Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance. Countries want independence, nations want liberation and the people want revolution-this has become the irresistible trend of history. All nations, big or small, should be equal; big nations should not bully the small and strong nations should not bully the weak. China will never be a superpower and it opposes hegemony and power politics of any kind. The Chinese side stated that it firmly supports the struggles of all the oppressed people and nations for freedom and liberation and that the people of all countries have the right to choose their social systems according to their own wishes and the right to safeguard the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of their own countries and oppose foreign aggression, interference, control and subversion. All foreign troops should be withdrawn to their own countries. The Chinese side expressed its firm support to the peoples of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in their efforts for the attainment of their goal and its firm support to the seven-point proposal of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam and the elaboration of February this year on the two key problems in the proposal, and to the Joint Declaration of the Summit Conference of the Indochinese Peoples. It firmly supports the eight-point program for the peaceful unification of Korea put forward by the Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on April 12, 1971, and the stand for the abolition of the "U.N. Commission for the Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea." It firmly opposes the revival and outward expansion of Japanese militarism and firmly supports the Japanese people's desire to build an independent, democratic, peaceful and neutral Japan. It firmly maintains that India and Pakistan should, in accordance with the United Nations resolutions on the IndiaPakistan question, immediately withdraw all their forces to their respective territories and to their own sides of the ceasefire line in Jammu and Kashmir and firmly supports the Pakistan Government and people in their struggle to preserve their independence and sovereignty and the people of Jammu and Kashmir in their struggle for the right of self-determination.. There are essential differences between China and the United States in their social systems and foreign policies. However, the two sides agreed that countries, regardless of their social systems, should conduct their relations on the principles of respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states, nonaggression against other states, non-interference in the internal affairs of other states, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence. International disputes should be settled on this basis, without resorting to the use or threat of force. The United States and the People's Republic of China are prepared to apply these principles to their mutual relations. With these principles of international relations in mind the two sides stated that: Progress toward the normalization of relations between China and the United States is in the interests of all countries; Both wish to reduce the danger of international military conflict; Neither should seek hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region and each is opposed to efforts by any other country or group of countries to establish such hegemony; and Neither is prepared to negotiate on behalf of any third party or to enter into agreements or understandings with the other directed at other states. Both sides are of the view that it would be against the interests of the peoples of the world for any major country to collude with another against other countries, or for major countries to divide up the world into spheres of interest. The two sides reviewed the long-standing serious disputes between China and the United States. The Chinese side reaffirmed its position: The Taiwan question is the crucial question obstructing the normalization of relations between China and the United States; the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government of China; Taiwan is a province of China which has long been returned to the motherland; the liberation of Taiwan is China's internal affair in which no other country has the right to interfere; and all U.S. forces and military installations must be withdrawn from Taiwan. The Chinese Government firmly opposes any activities which aim at the creation of "one China, one Taiwan," "one China, two governments," "two Chinas," and "independent Taiwan" or advocate that "the status of Taiwan remains to be determined." The U.S. side declared: The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States Government does not challenge that position. It reaffirms its interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question by the Chinese themselves. With this prospect in mind, it affirms the ultimate objective of the withdrawal of all U.S. forces and military installations from Taiwan. In the meantime, it will progressively reduce its forces and military installations on Taiwan as the tension in the area diminishes. The two sides agreed that it is desirable to broaden the understanding between the two peoples. To this end, they discussed specific areas in such fields as science, technology, culture, sports and journalism, in which people-to-people contacts and exchanges would be mutually beneficial. Each side undertakes to facilitate the further development of such contacts and exchanges. Both sides view bilateral trade as another area from which mutual benefit can be derived, and agreed that economic relations based on equality and mutual benefit are in the interest of the peoples of the two countries. They agree to facilitate the progressive development of trade between their two countries. The two sides agreed that they will stay in contact through various channels, including the sending of a senior U.S. representative to Peking from time to time for concrete consultations to further the normalization of relations between the two countries and continue to exchange views on issues of common interest. The two sides expressed the hope that the gains achieved during this visit would open up new prospects for the relations between the two countries. They believe that the normalization of relations between the two countries is not only in the interest of the Chinese and American peoples but also contributes to the relaxation of tension in Asia and the world. President Nixon, Mrs. Nixon and the American party expressed their appreciation for the gracious hospitality shown them by the Government and the people of the People's Republic of China. 1 U.S. exports to People's Republic of China do not include $50,600,000 worth of U.S. wheat, corn and soybeans transshipped through Canada during 1973. Thus, total U.S. exports to the People's Republic of China, including the goods transshipped, were $739,700,000. Source: U.S. Department of State. 54-692 O 75-4 |