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...proof of it," he reflected last week, "is rolling in from every direction. Pravda was uneasy, in a long article, about the U.S.-China rapprochement, fearing what effect it would have on U.S.-Soviet relations. Red China, through Chou En-lai's interview with the New York Times's James Reston, was uneasy about Japan, fearing it would turn into a nuclear nation, that it would swoop into Taiwan and Korea...
...read by observers as an outgrowth of that conference, Literaturnaya Gazeta, a leading Soviet weekly, last week reprinted a Polish article rebuking Rumania for taking a neutral position in the Chinese-Soviet dispute. In an even harsher tone-the official Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap reported that Chinese Premier Chou En-lai would visit Albania, Yugoslavia and Rumania this fall. Since all three nations have asserted varying degrees of independence from Moscow, the Budapest paper warned that Chou's junket "has an anti-Soviet edge." For the first time, the paper also spoke of a "Tirana-Belgrade-Bucharest" axis...
...Come. When a really bravura performance is required, it is likely to come from the man most responsible for the Nixon invitation, Premier Chou Enlai. The latest example came during the 31-day visit to China by a group of 15 graduate students from the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars-all Americans, and all characteristic of the growing body of U.S. scholars who are strongly sympathetic to the Maoist experiment in China (see EDUCATION). Chou was at his best, showing genuine private warmth toward the students, but public firmness bordering on hostility to their government. For the benefit...
Then came the charm. "In our country," Premier Chou told his appreciative guests, "you would be considered high intellectuals, and you have a heavy responsibility." He also observed approvingly that "American youth is gradually raising its political consciousness." Chou forecast that "when you go back you will introduce new American friends to us. Also some black friends. Let them all come to China to have a look. Of course, we will also return the visits...
Characteristic Smoothness. At one point, Susan Shirk, 26, a Ph.D. candidate in political science from M.I.T., asked-with a hint of dismay-how it happened that Richard Nixon had been invited to Peking. Chou was almost apologetic in his reply: "In contacting your Government to normalize relations, we must contact those who are in authority in your country. The governments of the two countries will bear the main responsibility for the normalization of relations between the two countries." With characteristic smoothness, he leaned toward the young scholar and added: "If Susan Shirk were the President of the U.S., then...