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Around 11 p.m. on Feb. 17, while Chou and I were meeting in the state guesthouse, we were summoned to a meeting with Mao. The Chairman's domicile was modest, like that of a middle-level functionary. Inside, Mao stood in front of a semicircle of easy chairs. Books were everywhere...
...military action in Indochina. With this prohibition, Kissinger notes, "our principal bargaining leverage was lost." As a result, an American proposal for a cease-fire in Cambodia was aborted-the Khmer Rouge had no need to negotiate for something that had already been handed to them by Congress-and Chou Enlai, who had agreed to lend China's weight to the proposal, was seriously embarrassed. The Chinese, says Kissinger, were "no longer sure of how steady or reliable a partner we would prove to be." Nonetheless, on Nov. 12, Mao again summoned Kissinger, along with two American colleagues...
During this meeting Mao substituted precision for his characteristic allusions. He began by asking what Chou and I had been discussing...
...Expansionism," replied Chou, making clear that containing the Soviet Union remained the top priority for China. "Who's doing the expanding, him?" inquired Mao, pointing at me-as if all this were new to him and Chou had not been reporting daily. "He started it," answered Chou, "but others have caught up." Mao went along cheerfully with Chou's implication that the Soviets were now the principal threat, but he discouraged any undue sense of danger that might tempt accommodation. The Soviets' courage, he said, did not match their ambitions, as demonstrated during the Cuban missile crisis...
After about an hour, Mao suddenly brought up Taiwan, hinting obliquely at a solution. He had heard that the three Baltic states, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, still had embassies in the U.S. I affirmed it. Chou helpfully chipped in that though maintaining diplomatic relations with the U.S., the Baltic states did not have access to the United Nations. Did this mean that China might acquiesce in a separate legal status for Taiwan, contenting itself with excluding Taiwan from...