Word: china
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Advice for NATO-and a warning to Hua's critics back home On a dingy street in a working-class arrondissement of Paris, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Mayor Jacques Chirac and China's Chairman and Premier Hua Guofeng (Hua Kuo-feng) climbed to the second floor of the newly repainted Hotel de Godefroy. There they peered briefly into Room 16, where nearly 60 years ago the late Chou En-lai met with fellow Chinese students to thrash out many of the ideas that led eventually to the Communist takeover of the world's most...
...basic purpose of Hua's visit was to reiterate China's desire to open up to the West. The Chairman also expressed his support for both the European Community and NATO in the common struggle against "hegemonism," Peking's code word for Moscow's expansionist ambitions. In a long-winded toast delivered at Giscard's welcoming dinner, Hua reeled off a list of Soviet sins, without once mentioning China's Communist archrival by name. He declared: "In Europe a serious state of military confrontation continues. In the Middle East, in Africa...
Another purpose of Hua's call was to rebuild the trade links with industrial nations that have weakened since the Peking Politburo concluded that the rapid "four modernizations" program of Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping exceeded China's capacity to pay for it. In the past eight months, Peking has canceled or postponed billions of dollars worth of orders from Japanese, American and European companies. The retrenchment has proved particularly disturbing to France, which ranked as China's fourth largest trading partner in 1976. By last year it had slipped to eighth place and prospects for improvement diminished...
...peasants complaining that they had been maltreated during the Cultural Revolution took part in sit-ins outside government offices in the capital. A poster signed by Qiu Shui, a writer for the radical underground journal Tansuo (Exploration), appeared on Peking's "Democracy Wall," denouncing Hua for "interference" with China's judicial procedures. The poster attacked Hua's statement that Mao Tse-tung's widow Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing) and the other members of the Gang of Four would not be sentenced to death when they go on trial, possibly next year. Wrote...
There are limits to liberalization in post-Mao China. In a pair of public show trials, portions of which were broadcast on China's scanty television network, two of the country's most prominent dissidents were served up as examples for Chinese citizens who take constitutional guarantees of free speech too literally. First to enter the dock was former Red Guard Wei Jingsheng, 29, who last year tacked up a famous wall poster calling for "the fifth modernization - democracy." As editor of Tansuo, he published an article detailing the harsh treatment of political detainees at Qincheng prison, outside...