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...whose fleet of junks explored the East African coast 80 years before the Portuguese got there in 1498. Both front page stories, purporting to prove that China and Africa had a long history of "friendly intercourse," celebrated the departure for post-colonial Africa of Communist China's Premier Chou Enlai, who is the grandest panjandrum from Peking ever to visit that continent...
...tour, lasting six weeks or more, will take Chou and two planeloads of advisers to at least nine "nonaligned" African countries, with a side trip to Albania, Red China's Eastern European satellite, and on the way home, a stop over in Pakistan. Competing with Moscow for friends among underdeveloped nations, Chou evidently wants to establish the yellow man's burden, even if China cannot exactly afford to pick it up. Among Afro-Asian countries, Peking's prestige has slumped badly as a result of its refusal to sign the nuclear test ban. In Africa alone...
...dawn broke over Tokyo one day last week, Chou Hung-ching decided he had no time to spare. Chou, 44, was an engineer with a seven-member scientific delegation from Red China; in five hours the group was scheduled to start back to Peking. Casually, Chou told his colleagues that he was going to take an early morning stroll. He walked slowly out of the Palace Hotel, picked up speed as he left the lobby, then ran into the middle of the street, where he stuck out both arms and desperately flagged a cruising taxi...
...faltering Japanese, Chou ordered the cabbie to take him to the Nationalist Chinese embassy. But the driver did not know the way, and for ten tortured minutes they rode around aimlessly. Finally Chou asked to be taken to the embassy of Red China's newer enemy-the Soviet Union. That happened to be just around the corner. Chou excitedly jumped out, found the front gate locked, and scrambled over the seven-foot concrete wall-leaving behind a startled, unpaid taxi driver. Inside the embassy the Russians were equally surprised. Peking was a "terrible place," Chou said. He had decided...
...more useful to the Soviets was a second Red Chinese defector who may well turn out to be a prize in the Sino-Soviet cold war to date. He was Chou Hsiang-pu, since 1957 a second secretary of Peking's legation in London. Chou was en route back home via Moscow with his wife and two children when he decided to stay in the Russian capital. Word soon leaked out to the Western press, but Kremlin officials clammed up about their catch and refused to confirm or deny the escape. One reason for Moscow's reticence...