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Gongs clanged and drums rumbled. Chief of State Liu Shao-chi and Premier Chou En-lai were on hand at the airport. On the trip into the city, a roaring crowd of half a million (said the Red radio) tossed flower petals. Lampposts were festooned with bunting, and at Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace colored balloons floated skyward trailing slogans of greetings. It was just about the biggest and gaudiest welcome Peking had organized for any visitor ever-including the 1959 one for Nikita Khrushchev...
...kind of occasion suited to Peking's purposes: Japan relived its sorrowing memories on the 15th anniversary of the cloud over Hiroshima that killed more than 70,000 people in one flash. And to show Japan how lovable its big neighbor was, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai dropped in at a Swiss embassy reception in Peking to lecture hosts and guests on Red China's professed devotion to "peaceful coexistence...
...China's Chou En-lai and Indonesia's President Sukarno basked in each other's compliments at the 1955 Bandung Conference, found common cause in anticolonialism. But last year, looking for a scapegoat for his crumbling economy, Sukarno cast his restless eye on the Chinese who run the stores and make the most money in nearly every village and town in Indonesia. He decided to transfer this lucrative business to deserving Indonesians, lightly overlooked the fact that few Indonesians have the know-how or energy to replace the industrious Chinese. He offered the Chinese a harsh alternative...
Last week Chou sent a special note to Nepal's Foreign Office to assure it that Red Chinese troops pursuing Tibetan rebels would not violate Nepal's borders (thereby admitting for the first time that there was a rebellion in Tibet). Two days later, a Chinese Communist party attacked a Nepalese border patrol, killed one officer, kidnaped 17 Nepalese...
...once Chou seemed almost embarrassed, hastily ordered a complete investigation, at week's end apologized profusely. "The scheme of imperialists to make use of this incident to spread slander and show discord between China and Nepal will never succeed," said he. Despite Chou's protestations, the incident proved once more that Red China has an astonishingly casual attitude toward the borders of its neighbors...