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Hsiung Hsiang-hui, Chou's Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Former chargè d'affaires in London (1962-65), Hsiung is among Chou's ablest aides. Educated at Western Reserve University in Cleveland and a deputy representative to the U.N. last fall, he speaks excellent English and is ranked one of China's front-rank diplomats and one of its foremost U.S. specialists...
Career Diplomat Fu Hao is an expert in Asian affairs. An Chih-yuan was Peking's chargé in Moscow when Sino-Soviet relations were descending to their invective-filled worst. Garrulous Tang Ming-chao got a degree from the University of California and edited a small pro-Communist daily in New York City before returning to China in 1949; he has been a greeter of foreign VIPs in Peking and a traveling agitator, plugging the Communist line at one "youth conference" or antiwar rally after another despite his age (he is now 61). Hsiung Hsiang-hui, 52, picked...
...similar incident in The Netherlands five years ago. At that time, a Chinese delegation barricaded itself inside its house in The Hague for five months rather than submit to police questioning about the sudden death of a colleague who had apparently attempted to defect. During that time, the Dutch chargé d'affaires in Peking was forced to remain a prisoner in his legation...
...opposed to a truce with Israel. China supports ongoing conflict partly because it wants to counteract any Soviet-American cooperation, partly because it wants to appear as the champion of revolutionary forces. Chou received a delegation of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Peking last week, and the Chinese chargé d'affaires in Baghdad has reportedly promised the guerrillas unlimited aid. Chinese aid so far has consisted mainly of small arms that are shipped to the Iraqi port of Basra and trucked overland to Jordan...
...American embassy is going through the throes of reorganization and self-doubt. Located in former servants' quarters behind a modest villa occupied by Chargé d'Affaires Lloyd M. Rives, the embassy is in a sullen mood. Columnist Joseph Kraft had written a devastating article about the military attache, Colonel William Pietsch, 47, accusing him of not knowing what is going on. That same weekend, after only a month or so in the country, Pietsch was hastily pulled back to the Pentagon...