Word: chou
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...chief idea man, counselor and fixer for Chairman Mao, Chou is China's chief executive officer. Though his influence is powerful, he is "a builder, not a poet," as Journalist Edgar Snow says. Chou is usually described as a "moderate" or a "pragmatist." But he is also, in all senses of the word, an opportunist. To some of those who knew the patrician Premier when he was starring in student theatricals (once in a female part) in the Teens, he is a skillful dissembler, not to be trusted in any circumstances. But most Westerners who have met Chou would agree...
...Chou who was largely responsible for putting the pieces of Chinese foreign policy back together after the Cultural Revolution. Less than three years ago, when the Red Guards were still running amuck, Peking simply had no conventional foreign policy. All 42 of its ambassadors round the world had been called home save for Chou's longtime lieutenant, Huang Hua. He was then Peking's man in Cairo, responsible for the Middle East and Africa...
...until the winter of 1969, when the dust from the Cultural Revolution had settled sufficiently for Chou to launch Peking's unprecedented diplomatic drive, the Chinese had not established much of a diplomatic track record. Partly, that was by choice. The old, exclusive Middle Kingdom notions lasted a long time. It was not until 1860 that China even deigned to set up an office to deal with foreign affairs...
...General Wu Hsiu-chuan to New York to "discuss" the Korean crisis. One U.N. veteran who heard the general's shrill tirades remembers Wu as "the loudest man we've ever had here." Peking's leaders have never exactly venerated the institution. Leery of its peace-keeping attempts, Chou has derisively called the U.N. "an international gendarmerie." In a recent interview in a Japanese newspaper, the Mao regime's leading intellectual, Kuo Mojo, called the U.N. a "dangerous slaughterhouse," citing its interventions in the Congo and Korea...
...kidnaped by a group of Nationalist officers who wanted to stop the anti-Communist campaign and unite against the Japanese invaders, he refused to bow. "If you want to shoot me," he said, "do so at once." He was finally released at the behest of a young Communist, Chou Enlai...