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The document we are hearing today is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency intelligence report on Chinese Communist foreign policy, specifically the section dealing with policy toward the United States and the diplomatic isolation of Taipei. It was produced in December nineteen sixty‑seven and was approved for release in May two thousand seven. This record entered the public domain through a Freedom of Information Act request, case number not disclosed, and was released by the CIA’s Office of Information Management. The declassification authority cited Executive Order twelve ninety‑eight, paragraph three point three, subparagraph one and six, covering materials older than twenty‑five years. The full text is available at the Black Vault archive. Now, the report itself. Approved for release date: May two thousand seven. Directorate of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency. Intelligence Report: Ten Years of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy, Section One: Policy Toward the United States and the Diplomatic Isolation of Taipei. Reference Title: POLO twenty‑six. Executive Order twelve nine five eight, paragraph three point three, subparagraph one, twenty‑five years; paragraph three point three, subparagraph six, twenty‑five years; paragraph six point two, subparagraph c. This is a working paper of the Directorate of Intelligence Special Research Staff. It is the first in a series that will include separate papers on Peking’s effort to limit United States involvement in countries near China, policy toward Communist regimes, policy toward countries far from China, and Mao’s doctrines on war and armed revolution, Mao’s policy toward the United States. In recent years it reflects his willingness to discard shrewd diplomatic behavior and to make it easier for Peking’s opponents to demonstrate that he, rather than the American leaders, is the intransigent party preventing any improvement in Sino‑American relations. His view that revolutionary elements should dominate diplomatic tactics in foreign policy has retarded Peking’s effort in recent years to gain international recognition and has eroded much of the goodwill Premier Zhou En‑lai had created among political and intellectual figures. It is the writer’s view that Zhou has been, and continues to be, dominated by Mao’s general lines on foreign policy. Zhou has tried to make Mao’s obsessions—his “thought,” class struggle, and world revolution—appear rational by demonstrating remarkable dexterity within Mao’s intransigent policy lines. But increasingly since nineteen sixty‑four, Zhou has had to work within an even more restricted diplomatic framework, has had to give more tactics the third degree to ensure they were “revolutionary,” and has had to accept a debasement of diplomacy in which Chinese officials in nineteen sixty‑seven molded Mao’s ego‑cult from their posts in foreign embassies, even as the established practice of diplomatic immunity was discarded. In the periods of revolutionary advance…

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Central Intelligence Agency Intelligence Report On Chinese Communist Foreign

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The document we are hearing today is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency intelligence report on Chinese Communist foreign policy, specifically the section dealing with policy toward the United States and the diplomatic isolation of Taipei. It was produced in December nineteen sixty‑seven and was approved for release in May two thousand seven.

Date: AUG 13 · 2026
Release: Declassified · U.S. public record (FOIA)
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What was Central Intelligence Agency Intelligence Report On Chinese Communist Foreign about?: The document we are hearing today is a declassified Central Intelligence Agency intelligence report on Chinese Communist foreign policy, specifically the section dealing with policy toward the United States and the diplomatic isolation of Taipei. It was produced in December nineteen sixty‑seven and was approved for release in May two thousand seven.
Why was this case declassified?: This material entered the public record through the U.S. declassification and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process. Storyflo narrates it directly from the public release.

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