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Ever since Chou En-lai first raised a goblet of fiery mao-tai to welcome Richard Nixon on his historic visit to Peking in 1972, American and Chinese officials have been toasting the friendship between the great Chinese and American peoples. But the fact is, of course, that from their beginnings Sino-American relations have had little to do with friendship and everything to do with a shared animosity toward the Soviet Union. For the past decade, the China factor has been a critical equalizer in the world balance of power. The Chinese People's Liberation Army ties down...
...after Mao Tse-tung's takeover of the mainland, the Nationalist government on the island still calls itself the Republic of China. Peking, on the other hand, regards Taiwan as a province under the sovereignty of the People's Republic. The Shanghai Communiqué that Nixon and Chou En-lai approved in 1972 was essentially an agreement to disagree, and to do so quietly. The U.S. did not dispute Peking's claim to the island but reserved the right to continue dealing with Taipei...
...Peking, and offer them in person the sorts of reassurances they have been trying to convey through Private Citizens Nixon and Kissinger. The geopolitical imperatives that brought the two nations together a decade ago are now more compelling than ever. But the mutual confidence and respect that Nixon and Chou En-lai were able to establish have not proved to be transferable to their successors. For the strategic partnership between China and the U.S. to survive, there will have to be a restoration of some personal rapport between the principal partners themselves. -By Strobe Talbott
...economic cooperation, "not on a modest, but on a massive scale." He believes the Chinese want the same thing. "When I first went to the People's Republic in 1972," he recalls, "the conversation was all geopolitics. Economic assistance hardly came up at all. Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai made clear that they weren't about to sell their ideology for a bowl of economic pottage. What we talked about was survival in the face of the common Soviet threat. On this last trip, by contrast, the present leaders wanted to talk about their econo...
Chinabound is anecdotes. It is the "oriental serutability" of "Ed Reischauer," the six-week bike ride before the first visit to China, encounters with Chou En-Lai, and rounding up Chinese journalists at their homes by jeep for a Douglas Mac Arthur press conference which was suddenly rescheduled. But it's also much more. Fairbank infuses his personal tales with the kind of clairvoyance which has distinguished him as a compassionate commentator as well as pioneer historian. With his first-hand familiarity with the U.S. effort to aid Chiang Kai-shek's regime, he describes his concern for increasingly confused...