The Russo-Chinese War: told in newspaper articles

OOC: Tibet hardly was on anyone's radar screen in 1966-67. Both superpowers are busy with the wars they've already got on their hands. Though if the Indians want to stir things up.....
 
OOC: Why would VP Humphrey be in Tokyo? He'd be minding the store back in D.C. in case something bad happened to LBJ overseas. The only others who would travel with the President (any President in this kind of situation) would be SecState, SecDef, the National Security Advisor, WH Chief of Staff, etc.

Fixed.

Now back to our originally scheduled program...:D
 
(OOC: Somebody must get some credit)

U Trant Thanks Gunnar Jarring
The Swedish Moscow Ambassador Gunnar Jarring did a fantastic job as a mediator said Secretary General U Trant to reporters. His efforts where keept secret to make his efforts easier.
 
The New York Times, March 22, 1967

Red Guard Finished according to Provisional Chinese Government

Early yesterday morning the leader of the Chinese Provisional Government General Yang Chengwu announced that the vast majority of the Red Guard in China, thanks in no small part to the cooperation of the Chinese people on the local level, had been "annihilated", with what remained of their forces retreating into the Gongga Shan Mountains. General Chengwu stated that "it was only a matter of time" before this last bastion of the Red Guards was pacified, but assured that they were no longer a threat to Russian or SEATO forces and were isolated within their mountain stronghold.

The Provisional Government of Red China once again asked for a cease fire along the lines proposed by the United Nations, and asked that the Soviets and United States "be reasonable and end this senseless bloodshed."

No response yet from either government.
 
The Washington Post, March 23rd, 1967

SEATO, Pact "Close" To Agreement on Cease-Fire Terms to China

Secretary of State Dean Rusk, speaking to reporters during a break in the talks at the Tokyo Summit, said that SEATO and Warsaw Pact leaders are, in his words, "close" to an agreement on cease-fire terms to present to the Chinese Military Government. Secretary Rusk said that President Johnson and Soviet Premier Kosygn have had more common ground than one might have expected, and that all of the leaders have the same goal in mind: a China that is no longer a threat to either its immediate neighbors or to world peace as a whole. As for UN Secretary-General U Thant's request to have the Chinese send a delegation, Secretary Rusk replied, "Out of the question."

MacNamara: Chinese Subs Still Active

Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara, visiting the Command Center of the U.S. 7th Fleet at Yokouska Naval Base, said that Chinese subs are still active in the East China Sea, near the Formosa Straits, and in adjacent waters. "Antisubmarine operations continue, and will continue until either the Cease-Fire is adopted, or there's no one left to hunt." Secretary MacNamara went on to say that convoys between Singapore and Japan will continue "until further notice."

In a related note, Secretary MacNamara met his Soviet counterpart, Marshal Andrei Grechko, at the Summit, and both men agreed that regular meetings between Soviet and American defense officials should take place once the Far Eastern War is settled, and that annual or biannual meetings between the two men or their successors "would be a good idea." One issue likely to come up for postwar discussion would be an agreement on preventing incidents at sea or in the air from esclating into a crisis between the two superpowers.

Taipei: Offer to Administer Hainan Island Made to SEATO

Nationalist Chinese President Chaing Kai-Shek, in a Televised Address to the Taiwanese people, said today that he has made a formal offer to the SEATO Alliance to take over the administration of Hainan Island from the Alliance forces currently occupying the island. A spokesman at the U.S. Embassy in Taipei refused to comment, only saying "the Ambassador has received a letter from Chaing to President Johnson on this issue."
 
The Los Angeles Times, March 27th, 1967

LBJ, Kosygin Announce Cease-Fire Terms on Behalf of Their Respective Alliances: AP

In a joint appearance on behalf of their respective military alliances, and with their fellow leaders in attendance, President Johnson and Premier Kosygin today announced the terms that both SEATO and the Warsaw Pact will present to the Chinese for an end to the Far Eastern War. "These terms must be accepted completely and without reservations for our respective military alliances to cease hostilities. They are non-negotiable," the joint statement reads. The terms are as follows:

1) An immediate order to all Chinese Air, Land, and Naval Forces to cease hostile actions. Once the order has been issued and acknowledged, SEATO and Pact forces will cease hostilities. Chinese naval forces will immediately return to their home ports, and may do so in safety.

2) Immediate access to, and release of, all prisoners of war, including any who may have been withheld from release at the end of the Korean War in 1953. Chinese Prisoners of War will be exchanged via the good offices of the International Red Cross.

3) China must renounce Mao's goals of exporting of revolution to both the Western Alliances (SEATO and NATO), to the Warsaw Pact countries, and to other nations around the world.

4) China must accept the prewar Sino-Soviet border in its entirety. It must also accept the Sino-North Vietnamese border.

5) China must adhere to the doctrine of Freedom of the Seas for all neutral shipping in time of war.

6) Chinese development of nuclear energy for civilian purposes may continue, but China must renounce development, possession, or deployment of nuclear weapons. SEATO and Pact inspectors must be allowed to verify all actions taken in compliance. Any nuclear warheads remaining in China must be handed over to either SEATO or Pact forces for transfer and ultimate disposal.

7) The Chinese government will not attempt to seize Taiwan by force. SEATO Naval Forces will patrol the Formosa Straits for the forseeable future to enforce this provision. China will likewise refrain from attempts to seize Hong Kong and Macao by force.

8) The Chinese government must renounce acts of terrorism committed in its name, and refuse to support or condone any future terrorist acts.

9) Upon Chinese acceptance of these terms, a phased and orderly withdrawal of SEATO and Pact forces from territories they currently occupy will be implemented.

10) Failure to comply with these terms will lead to Chinese forces being treated by SEATO and Pact forces in accordance with the laws and usages of war.

The leaders of the SEATO and Warsaw Pact Alliances await China's acceptance of these terms.
 
You know something? I find this TL more desirable than ours. Is it too good to be true?

Soviets and the West settling things together, the VN war ended peacefully.

Where is the catch? Where do we go from here? Back to the Cold War? Surely not.

Great thread.
 
I'm surprised that Taiwan would accept those terms. I would have thought they would push for the replacement of the PRC gove with there own as they do not recognize the PRC gov as legit.
 
Soviets and the West settling things together, the VN war ended peacefully.

Where is the catch? Where do we go from here? Back to the Cold War? Surely not.

OOC: There where some worries that the US and the Soviet would work out their differences over the head of US allies, I think it implies US selling them out to the Soviets, in order to form a US-Soviet commonwelt.

OOC: Should we start a Chinese resistance group?
 
I'm surprised that Taiwan would accept those terms. I would have thought they would push for the replacement of the PRC gove with there own as they do not recognize the PRC gov as legit.

If that's what the United States, in alliance with the Soviet Union wants, to keep a PRC government around- they will get it, methinks.
 
The Washington Post, April 1st 1967

Red China accepts the terms laid out by SEATO and Warsaw Pact leaders

In an announcement over Radio Peking earlier today, General Yang Chengwu agreed to the terms laid out by two alliances and agreed to immediately withdraw all naval forces to their respective home ports. He asked the people of China to allow SEATO and Warsaw Pact forces to withdraw from China unharassed and spoke of his hope for peaceful relations with the two powers in the future. He condemned the actions of Mao Zedong and his supporters, and stated that his government would strive to remove the stain of his rule from their beloved homeland.

No response from either the Warsaw or SEATO pacts as of yet.
 
The Washington Post, April 2, 1967

LBJ, Kosygin: China Accepts Cease-Fire Terms

In a joint statement on behalf of the SEATO and Warsaw Pact alliances, President Johnson and Premier Kosygin announced Red China's acceptance of the cease-fire terms presented on March 27th, and that a cease-fire by their respective alliances will go into effect at Midnight Local Time on April 3rd (12:00 Noon EST). All SEATO and Pact forces will cease offensive operations as of that time and date, and until their withdrawal begins, will remain in a defensive posture. Both leaders also stated their demand that the International Red Cross be granted access to SEATO and Pact POWs held by the Chinese, while details for exchange of prisoners are worked out via the Red Cross. Chinese military officers may be sent to the Pact Theater Headquarters at Chita and the U.S. SEACOM in Saigon to work out details of troop withdrawals from occupied territories and to disclose the locations of any sea mines that may affect shipping in the region.

Seoul: Scattered Fighting Still Ongoing in North Korea

South Korean military sources in Seoul report that a steady stream of defectors crossing the DMZ confirm that scattered fighting between elements of the North Korean Army fighting each other, as well as Army and the Security Forces continue in Pyongyang, Wonsan, and other locations in the North. While most of the fighting is limited to exchanges of small-arms fire and ambushes, the occasional full-scale battle between North Korean Army units has happened, with major use of tanks and artillery. While offical North Korean Media has not used the term "Civil War" to describe the situation, many U.S. and ROK military sources in Seoul feel that is exactly the term that would describe the situation in the North.

U Thant: "Relieved" That Cease-Fire Will Go Into Effect

UN Secretary-General U Thant, speaking to reporters at UN Headquarters in New York, said that he was "relieved" that SEATO and Warsaw Pact forces will cease hostilities and that "peace and security will return to the Far East." Mr. Thant, however, deplored the "stubborn attitudes on both sides" that delayed this moment for many weeks, and cost thousands of lives on and behind the battlefields of Manchuria and Hainan. The Secretary-General offered UN observers to monitor the troop withdrawals and Chinese compliance with the Cease-Fire Terms, but has yet been no reply from the Tokyo Summit on his proposal.

One Senate Foreign Relations Commitee Staffer said to a UPI reporter, in response to Mr. Thant's suggestion, "If U Thant had had his way, Mao would still be in power, the Red Guard would still be a threat to everyone in the region, and we'd just be waiting for another war sometime down the road, only with nuclear weapons being used. What was it President Kennedy said in October 1962? With friends like U Thant, who needs enemies?"

In a very candid statement, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoly Dobrynin had a similar remark, saying that "U Thant failed to recognize that neither superpower wanted war, and blamed both for responding to Mao's actions."

Rusk: "First We've Heard of It" in Response to U Thant's Proposals

After a meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said to reporters asking for his response to U Thant's propsals "First we've heard of it." Mr. Rusk said that for U Thant to try and take credit for ending a war that neither superpower wanted, but had to fight, was in his words, "preposterous." Foreign Minister Gromyko had a similar remark, saying that if U Thant expected the superpowers to ignore Mao's "provocations and aggression", he was naive and mistaken.
 
OOC: The last thing the U.S. would want is to have the Chinese Civil War restarted again, so they would tell Chaing to let events on the Mainland run their course and see what happens. They still have the UN seat at this time. If Ivan had gotten to Peking, and driven the T-62s thru Tianamen Square, then one would have a case for legitimazing a replacement government, even the one set up by the Russians in the occupied areas of Manchuria and Siankang.
 
even the one set up by the Russians in the occupied areas of Manchuria and Siankang.

OOC: Speaking of which, what is going to happen to that government? Are they simply going to lay down their arms and reincorporate themselves with the transitional government?
 
Ive been gone a long while so i might as well finish what i specifacally started. aka the DPRC

IC:

Democratic Peoples Republic of China dismantled

Pravda

As a result of the peace between the PRC and the Government of the USSR the Democratic Peoples Republic of China has been dismantled.


Peace in North Korea

New York Times

With the end of the Sino-Soviet War Nortk Korea has been able to fully direct all military forces to stopping dissidents. All military reports from Seoul report peace in Pyongyang.
 
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A few comments:

1. Thanks for NOT smashing up Hong Kong :) (that's where I came from)

2. Would the 7th Cav be so stupid to open fire on Chinese civilians?

3. A Fascist Japan? Interesting...

4. What happened to Lin Bao?
 
I was wondering if anybody thought

In between all of this hoo hah, has anybody wondered what our old buddies in South Africa are up to? Oom B.J, just might be willing to expand a little in the middle of all this hiliararity.
 
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