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...Revisionist. Earlier this year, China slowly began repairing bridges burned during the Cultural Revolution. As often as not, Peking's maneuvers were designed to steal a march on Moscow. Two months ago, Premier Chou En-lai flew to Pyongyang to embrace North Korean Leader Kim II Sung, who had been branded a "fat revisionist" by Maoist Red Guards in more extremist years. Peking then agreed to exchange ambassadors with the original revisionist capital, Belgrade...
Sihanouk heard of his overthrow from Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Moscow. At first he took the news calmly. A few hours later, just before flying off to Peking for talks with Premier Chou Enlai, he told Cambodian students at Vnukovo II Airport that he might establish an exile government in Moscow or Peking. Earlier, he had sent off a cable to his mother quoting Kosygin as having said: "If the extreme right continues to strike foul blows on our allies, war is inevitable between Cambodia and Viet...
Paranoid Fear. Western observers believe that China's policymakers agreed to a resumption of the Warsaw talks for two reasons: 1) Premier Chou Enlai, whose pragmatic approach to foreign affairs appears to carry the most weight in Peking these days, is convinced that China must begin to emerge from the isolation of the Cultural Revolution, and 2) the Chinese are genuinely fearful that a breakdown of the border negotiations could lead to war with the Soviet Union, and are hoping that talks with the U.S. will compel Moscow to become more conciliatory...
Such tough-mindedness was bound to get Li into trouble with fervent Maoists. During the Cultural Revolution, Red Guards threatened to "bombard" and "burn" him. Protected by Chou, one of his closest associates, Li survived. With strong links to the army, government and party, he is in a position to rise still higher, in spite of his personal crudeness. A man who loves spicy food and hot chili peppers as much as he despises table manners, Li was once addicted to opium. Since breaking the habit, he has become a heavy cigarette smoker...
...there is still powerful opposition to any flexibility; according to one report, Chou had to fight to win approval from the Politburo merely to meet with Kosygin in September...