UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case NO Doc No 005342531 Date 05 13 2013 SECRET PAGE 01 HONG K11219 01 OF 02 2503022 ACTION 88 30 INFO OCT-01 ADS-00 1031 085423 2503577 3 IN PART as 2400472 JUL 80 FM AMCONSUL HONG KONG TO SECSTATE WASHDC 0468 INFO AMEMBASSY BEIJING AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI ET SECTION 1 OF 2 HONG KONG 11219 DECAPTIONED NOFORN WARNING NOTICE-SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS E O 12065 7 23 10 SHOESMITH THOMAS P OR-M TAGS PEPR SREF CH IN SUBJECT 8 UNITED FRONT WORK DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON TIBETAN AFFAIRS REF A 79 HONG KONG 18993 B 79 HONG KONG 18706 1 S ENTIRE TEXT 2 PROTECT OF EARLIER INF ETAN EXILE COMMUNITY DISCUSSIONS IN 1979 HAS RECENTLY VISITED CHINA WHERE HE DISCUSSED THE TIBETAN QUESTION WITH UNITED FRONT WORK DEPARTMENT DEPUTY DIRECTOR XIONG XIANGHUI AND OTHER UNITED FRONT AND NATIONALITIES AFFAIRS OFFICIALS SECRET SECRET AUTHORITY Charles Lahiguera Senior Reviewer PAGE 02 HONG 11219 01 OF 02 2503022 THE SOURCE CARRIED AN ORAL MESSAGE FROM THE DALAI BROTHER GYALOTHONDUP TO THE EFFECT THAT THE DALAI LAMA FEELS UNDER A VARIETY OF POLITICAL PRESSURES AT PRESENT AND THEREFORE CANNOT NOW MOVE FORWARD AN DISCUSSIONS XIONG DENIED THAT THE PRC IS PRESSURING THE DALAI LAMA TO MOVE INTO SERIOUS NEGOTIATIONS XIONG ALSO REJECTED COMPLETELY THE IDEA OF TIBET JOINING THE PRC IN A FEDERAL ARRANGEMENT END SUMMARY UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No Doc No 005342531 Date 05 13 2013 BB UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case NO DOC NO 005342531 Date 05 13 2013 3 1 PROTECT VISITED CHINA IN LATE JUNE AND EARLY JULY AS A GUEST OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT HIS IMMEDIATE HOST APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRIENDSHIP WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES BUT HE HAD LONG SUBSTANTIVE MEETINGS ON TIBETAN POLICY WITH MEMBERS OF THE STATE COUNCIL NATIONALITIES AFFAIRS COMMISSION AND THE PARTY UNITED FRONT WORK DEPARTMENT 4 BEFORE GOING TO CHINA GYALOTHONDUP THE DALAI BROTHER RESIDENT IN HONG KONG ASKED THE SOURCE TO PASS A SHORT ORAL MESSAGE TO UNITED FRONT WORK DEPARTMENT DEPUTY DIRECTOR XIONG XIANGHUI THE MESSAGE WAS 1 THE REFORMS IN TIBET ARE ENCOURAGING BUT DO NOT GO FAR ENOUGH AND 2 IT IS VERY DIFFICULT AT PRESENT FOR THE DALAI LAMA TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE CHINESE BECAUSE UNLIKE THE EARLIER SECRET STAGE MATTERS ARE TOO OUT IN THE OPEN NOW AND THE DALAI LAMA IS UNDER PRESSURE FROM EXILE COMMUNITY ELEMENTS TO MOVE SLOWLY AND CAUTIOUSLY THE SOURCE STATED THAT EXAMPLES OF PRESSURE WHICH GYALOTHONDUP CITED WERE OPPOSITION TO FURTHER MOVES COMING FROM MILITANT MEMBERS OF THE TIBETAN YOUTH CONGRESS AS WELL AS QUESTIONS RAISED BY MEMBERS OF THE FIRST GROUP THE DALAI SECRET SECRET PAGE 03 HONG 11219 01 OF 02 250302Z BROTHER LOBSANG SAMIEM THREE KASHAG MEMBERS YOUNG BUREAUCRATS WHICH VISITED TIBET LAST YEAR AND CAME BACK WITH 60 000 LETTERS MOST OF WHICH URGED THE DALAI LAMA TO STAY ABROAD ALSO CITED AS A PRESSURE WERE OVERTURES OF AN UNSPECIFIED NATURE FROM THE RUSSIANS 5 IN HIS MEETING WITH THE SOURCE XIONG WAS ACCOMPANIED BY JIANG SHAN WHO WAS INTRODUCED AS THE TOP PERSON IN THE UNITED FRONT WORK DEPARTMENT IN CHARGE OF NATIONAL MINORITIES AFFAIRS XIONG WAS DEFERENTIAL TOWARD JIANG THE SOURCE STATED THAT XIONG APPEARED TO BE ANNOYED AT THE MESSAGE CONVEYED QUITE POSSIBLY GUESSED THE SOURCE BECAUSE XIONG WAS UNEASY WITH HAVINGI SOURCE DESCRIBED XIONG AS ONE OF THE MEANEST TOUGHEST CHINESE HE HAS EVER MET 6 READING FROM HIS NOTES THE SOURCE SAID THAT IN ANSWER TO THE POINT ABOUT REFORMS XIONG STATED THAT REFORMS IN TIBET ARE FOR THE PEOPLE OF TIBET AND HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DALAI SECRET UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No F-2010-04407 Doc No 005342531 Date 05 13 2013 BC BC UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No Doc No C05342531 Date 05 13 2013 I SECRET PAGE 01 HONG 11219 02 OF 02 2503162 ACTION 88-30 INFO OCT-01 ADS-00 880-00 031 250400Z 12 240047Z JUL 80 FM AMCONSUL HONG KONG TO SECSTATE WASHDC 0469 INFO AMEM BASSY BEIJING AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI SECTION 2 OF 2 HONG KONG 11219 EXDIS NOFORN WARNING INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED NOT RELEASABLE TO FOREIGN NATIONALS XIONG PREDICTED THAT THE TIBETAN ECONOMY WILL BE SHOWING QUICK RESULTS UNDER RECENTLY ANNOUNCED REFORM POLICIES ON THE QUESTION OF PRESSURES ON THE DALAI LAMA XIONG SAID THAT THE CHINESE ARE NOT PUTTING ANY PRESSURE ON THE TIBET LEADER XIONG STATED THAT THERE ARE NO NEGOTIATIONS GOING ON AND CHANGES TO DATE HAVE ALL BEEN UNILATERALLY DECIDED UPON BY THE CHINESE XIONG SAID THE TIBETAN DELEGATIONS HAVE NOT PROPOSED CONCRETE CHANGES BUT HAVE MERELY COME AND COMPLAINED 7 THE SOURCE RAISED THE IDEA WHICH HE TOLD XIONG WAS A PERSONAL VIEW OF HAVING TIVET JOINED TO CHINA IN A FEDERAL UNION SOURCE STATED TO CONGENOFF THAT THIS IDEA WAS IN FACT FATHERED BY GYALOTHONDUP HOWEVER THE SOURCE IS PERSONALLY CONVINCED THAT A FEDERAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT FOR CHINA WOULD ALLOW FOR GREATER PROVINCIAL SECRET SECRET PAGE 02 HONG 11219 02 OF 02 250316Z AUTONOMY A TREND WHICH HE SEES DEVELOPING XIONG RESPONDED THAT THE IDEA OF A FEDERAL FORM OF GOVERNMENT IS COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE QUOTING SUN YATSEN WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION XIONG SAID THAT CHINAIS LIKE A LOOSE PAN OF SAND IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER A SOLUTION TO THE TIBETAN QUESTION MIGHT NOT HAVE REPERCUSSIONS FOR TAIWAN XIONG STATED EMPHATICALLY UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No F-2010-04407 Doc No 005342531 Date 05 13 2013 UNCLASSIFIED us Department of State Cas Doc No 305342531 Date 35 13 2013 THAT THE TIBET AND TAIWAN PROBLEMS ARE TWO COMPLETELY SEPARATE QUESTIONS WHEN THE SOURCE SUGGESTED THAT THE TIBETAN MINORITY AUTONOMOUS AREAS IN GANSU SICHUAN QINGHAI ANDYUNNAN SHOULD BE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SELF-DETERMINATION TO DECIDE WHETHER THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE POLITICALLY REUNITED WITH TIBET XIONG REJECTED THE IDEA STATING ALL AUTONOMOUS ZHOU AND XIAN HAD A CHOICE THEY WOULD OPT OUT OF 8 AFTER RETURNING TO HONG KONG THE SOURCE WAS TOLD BY GYALOTHONDUP THAT HE HAD RECENTLY SUBMITTED A TEN POINT DETAILED CRITICISM OF CHINESE POLICY TOWARD TIBET TO THE CHINESE ACCORDING TO THE SOURCE GYALOTHONDUP WILL BE LEAVING HONG KONG JULY 23 FOR A 45-DAY TRIP AROUND INNER CHINA BUT NOT INTO TIBET HE WILL BE ACCOMPANIED AT LEAST AS FAR AS BEIJING BY NCNA HONG KONG DEPUTY DIRECTOR LI JUSHENG 9 COMMENT THE SOURCE IS PERSONALLY CONVINCED THAT IN FACT THERE ARE NO ONGOING SERIOUS NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE CHINESE AND THE DALAI LAMA CONCERNING THE RETURN OF HIS HOLINESS TO CHINA 10 IN AN INTERESTING ASIDE AN OFFICIAL OF THE NATIONALITI ES AFFAIRS COMMISSION TOLD THE SOURCE WITH A GOOD DEAL OF PIQUE THAT TINY JEWISH MINORITY SECRET SECRET PAGE 03 HONG 11219 02 OF 02 25031 62 HAS STUBBORNLY REFUSED TO PETITION TO BECOME A NATIONAL MINORITY ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL HUNDRED CHINESE IN KAIFENG WHO FOLLOW RITUALS WHICH ARE OF JEWISH OFFICIAL SAID THAT THE JEWISH MINORITY WOULD STAND TO GAIN EASIER ADMISSION TO UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER ADVANTAGES GIVEN TO CERTIFIED MINORITIES IF THE COMMUNITY WOULD ONLY PETITION FOR MINORITY STATUS SHOESMITH SECRET UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No Doc No 005342531 Date 05 13 2013 This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu