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...serious snags, Carter told him in cryptic language?even though he was using a scrambler phone?that the agreement with Peking was almost set. The President referred to it as "the matter that only five of us are involved in." After several more exchanges of cables with Peking, Brzezinski informed Carter at about 1 p.m. Thursday that work on the communique was finished. The President smiled and said, "Good deal...
...Friday, it became obvious to everyone in Washington that something important was about to happen. At 3 p.m. Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin showed up at Brzezinski's office. When the envoy departed a few minutes later, reporters pressed around him to ask what had been discussed...
When Energy Secretary James Schlesinger saw China's Chairman Hua Kuo-feng in November, he was asked to relay greetings to only two men in Washington: Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski, The President's National Security Adviser, who made a diplomatically crucial visit to China last May, has long been the most forceful advocate within the Administration of normalizing relations with Peking. Last week TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott interviewed Brzezinski on his thoughts about the changing Sino-American relationship...
...Some Brzezinski critics have accused him of unseemly haste in seeking to normalize relations with China and of an obviously anti-Soviet motivation for wanting to do so. Brzezinski vigorously denies the charges...
Moscow views China's opening to the West as potentially threatening and sees Brzezinski as the principal villain in a plot to set up an anti-Soviet alliance involving China, Japan and NATO. Brzezinski rejects that view: "A China that is increasingly modern, increasingly capable of dealing with its large number of people, increasingly a factor in stability both in its region and in the world as a whole-a China that is strong and secure-that is a China we would like to see. We do not see cooperation among China, the U.S., Western Europe and Japan...