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...Indonesians having called the suggestion "inopportune"* ; Peking has been giving them a bad time over their law curbing overseas Chinese traders. And in Calcutta, where Khrushchev stopped over to meet Nehru and Burma's Prime Minister-designate U Nu, the air was festive because China's Chou En-lai had meanwhile agreed to visit New Delhi to discuss the Chinese-Indian border dispute. "The Indian people will overcome difficulties," shouted Khrushchev. "Let pug dogs bark while the Indian elephant marches forward!" "We are with him on this," replied Nehru...
After months of exchanging crusty letters over the India-Red China border dispute, Red China's Chou En-lai last week accepted Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's invitation to come to New Delhi to talk about it. In a letter oozing good will, Chou said that because of state business he could not go in March, when invited, but he would go in April. He was, said Chou, grateful for Nehru's "friendly invitation," and hoped to "see the dark clouds hovering between our two countries dispersed through our joint efforts...
...around 1918 to teach, and to advise Chiang Kai-shek from time to time on economic matters. Always a maverick, he was arrested by the Nationalists during World War II as one of the Chiang government's most vehement Kuomintang critics. Ma later acknowledged that Communist Liaison Officer Chou En-lai "did everything in his power to save me." When Ma finally fled to Hong Kong shortly before Chiang's fall in 1949, it was Chou who sent a telegram inviting him to join the new Communist regime in Peking...
...defied solution for 100 years." In exchange for the three villages and one 80-sq.-mi. area, Red China surrendered all claims to a 100-sq.-mi. triangle southeast of Bhamo. The two nations also signed a ten-year nonaggression pact. "We are determined." beamed Premier Chou Enlai, "to make the border between our countries one of peace and friendship." What had changed Peking's mind? In the past year Communist China's once great prestige in India, Burma and Indonesia has fallen, largely as a result of the ugly adventures in Tibet and Peking's quarrels...
...gets what it wants in Ladakh, the Communists may enlarge their demands in other areas of the 2,500-mile border where China has "not up to now made any demand"; and 4) border peace and mutual confidence "are unattainable by other provisional measures." After asserting these squatter rights, Chou blandly declared that China is so big a country, and so sparsely settled in half of its area, that it would be "extremely ludicrous" to suspect that Peking would "encroach one inch upon foreign territory...