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...numbers. Yet the words were justified. In just 90 seconds of television time, President Richard Nixon last week made an announcement that altered many of the major assumptions and patterns of postwar diplomacy. The President would go to Peking to meet with China's Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai before next May. The arrangements had been made by his National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, during a secret meeting with Chou in Peking the week before...
...were not cut off. Peking's response was exceptionally restrained, considering its past responses to American military moves. Nor did the invasion of Laos unduly upset the Chinese. By this time, it was the North Vietnamese who were disturbed, reacting with alarm to the mildness shown by their ally. Chou En-lai led a delegation to Hanoi to reassure them...
...able to embark on his diplomatic adventure?a five-nation trip ostensibly related to the war in Viet Nam?and to fly into Peking from Pakistan without arousing suspicion, while pretending to be ill with a stomach ailment (see box, page 13). He arrived in Peking fully aware that Chou was more than willing to see Nixon. But just what the Kissinger-Chou talks produced that convinced both sides that they would benefit from a summit meeting remains one of the mysteries surrounding the affair. Uncertainty that matters would go smoothly was undoubtedly a reason for all of the secrecy...
Meanwhile, China's leaders continue to draw a sharp distinction between the "friendly American people" and the "fascist, imperialist Nixon government." Premier Chou Enlai, the architect of Peking's exercise in Ping Pong diplomacy, has told several recent visitors that there has been "no thaw" at the governmental level. Although the new trade list is clearly a step forward, no one expects a quick change in that chilly situation...
...this time was Peking's venture in Ping Pong diplomacy and Washington's warm response. One thing is clear besides the water: any real rapprochement between the U.S. and the mainland regime hinges on Taiwan, a verdant island of 14 million people. As Peking's Premier Chou En-lai recently put it, "The main dispute between the U.S. and China is the imperialist occupation of Taiwan, and we are prepared to start negotiations with the U.S. from this point...