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...likely Kissinger assured Chou that the U.S. would stick to its withdrawal plans and might well have ceased all active combat missions by the time Nixon goes to Peking. In return, Chou may have agreed to press Hanoi to seek a settlement short of a takeover of South Viet Nam?in the confidence that this would eventually happen anyway. Chou probably promised Kissinger that China would be willing to take part in a new Geneva-style conference to seek a negotiated settlement of the entire Southeast Asia conflict, thus taking the initiative away from the U.S.S.R. Chou conveyed such...
...Kissinger trip. The group drove to a handsome villa on a small lake outside Peking and sat down to a sumptuous Chinese lunch. While the rest of the U.S. delegation, adjusting to their environment, ate with chopsticks, Kissinger stuck to knife and fork. At 4 in the afternoon, Chou En-lai arrived and serious talks got under way. Chou and Kissinger sat on opposite sides of a table covered with green felt and talked through dinner and on into the night...
...drafted by Nixon, Rogers and himself. There was no prearranged agenda. The President's visit was only one of many items discussed. Kissinger chose his verbs with more care than usual. Two interpreters, one bom in the U.S., the other a Chinese who attended Harvard, translated his words for Chou. But it was a redundant exercise. Chou speaks fluent English and occasionally corrected the translators. He used the translation rather to give himself time to frame his answers, which he delivered without once consulting his notes...
...following day, July 10, Kissinger and his party were given a tour of the Forbidden City. That afternoon, they resumed talks with Chou in the Great Hall of the People in Peking. The second session lasted as long as the first: about eight hours. In the dramatic settings for the talks, said a White House official, the Chinese were "enormously gracious and polite. On the human level, we were treated extraordinarily well. The mood of the session was precise and businesslike. There was no rhetoric on either side. We spoke frankly, directly and I believe usefully...
...twisted behind his back. The leader of a Red Guard unit during the frenetic Cultural Revolution, which all but paralyzed China between 1966 and 1969, Yao was accused of mounting a raid on the Chinese foreign ministry, burning down the British chancellery, and plotting a personal assault on Premier Chou Enlai. Yao's reported sentence: ten years in prison...