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During his two earlier visits to Peking, Kissinger worked out an agenda with Premier Chou En-lai for the talks, which will be held in secret. The meetings, probably daily ones with Chou and at least one with Mao, will cover a wide variety of topics, including the release of the remaining three American prisoners in China (likely, but later), an exchange of artists, athletes and journalists (almost certain), increases in trade (very likely, but limited) and landing rights for U.S. commercial airlines in China (maybe later). There will also be talks (probably inconclusive) about divided Korea, Sino-Soviet relations...
...Revolution, and muffled convulsions continue in the highest reaches of the regime. Who, in fact, rules China? So far as is known, there is no vertical hierarchy, no line of succession. There is Chairman Mao, 78, the Chinese revolution's ever more remote deity. Then there is Premier Chou Enlai, 73, the government's chief-and almost only -public presence...
...Peking, and at the end of the trip may see him again in Hangchow, the Chairman's usual retreat from the icy Mongolian winds that sweep down on the capital in February. But the man who will deal with the President on the issues is Chou, a brilliant, subtle, ruthless and endlessly flexible statesman who is at the apex of his extraordinary career...
...least in the world's eyes, Chou was already the commanding figure in China when the Nixon trip was announced seven months...
From midnight until 3 a.m. one day last week, China's seemingly tireless Premier Chou En-lai talked with a group of visiting American scholars in Peking's Great Hall of the People. China-born Journalist John McCook Roots reported to TIME on the session -probably the last such meeting before Richard Nixon arrives on Feb. 21. Some of Chou's comments...