Word: chou
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blue and white DC-7 skimmed clear of the sand dunes surrounding Somalia's primitive Mogadishu Airport, then wheeled out over the Indian Ocean toward Asia. In his chartered KLM air liner, Red China's Premier Chou Enlai, his hard face lined and bloodless, watched Africa drop behind him. In the course of his 53-day safari, he had toured ten nations, ranging from so traditional a monarchy as Morocco to so Red-hot a republic as Ghana, with time out for a side trip to Albania...
Though seven African nations signed up for an anti-imperialist "Second Bandung Conference" of Afro-Asian governments, touted by Chou, he failed notably to sow the seeds of Red China's virulent anti-Americanism. This failure was most pointed in Guinea. When Chou attacked the U.S. position in Panama, he was disappointed to find Sekou...
When he heard the news of France's recognition while on tour in Africa, Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai broke into rapturous French. "Bonjour, bonjour, comment allez-vous!" he cried to France's ambassador in the Sudan. "That's great. I am very happy." He also recalled that he and Foreign Minister Chen Yi "were both students together in Paris many years...
...learned about life and Marxism in Paris. We loved Paris. I hope to see Paris some day soon." If Chou was angling for a visit, De Gaulle turned a deaf ear, for no invitation came his way. At big moments, le grand Charles likes to be alone onstage...
...will promptly sever diplomatic ties with Paris. The U.S. counseled the Nationalists against a quick break on the grounds that 1) if Red China sticks to its longstanding position that no country may have diplomats in both Peking and Taipei (a view repeated last week by barnstorming Red Premier Chou En-lai in Mali), De Gaulle would be acutely embarrassed and the onus will be on the Communists; 2) if Peking accepts a "two-China" policy, it would be a major Red switch that weakens phony Red claims to Formosa; 3) a two-China policy would also ease U.S. diplomatic...