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...Taiwan, replacing the embassy with a liaison mission. But Ford hardly wanted to make any compromises with Communist China last week that might further weaken his position with Republican conservatives. It was clear enough well before the trip, moreover, that the deteriorating health of Mao and Premier Chou En-lai precluded any serious dealings on the touchy subject of Taiwan. This awaits the successors to Mao and Chou and, as Ford and Kissinger may have reflected, perhaps their...
...roll by from a red-canopied reviewing stand, surrounded by nine fellow African heads of state. Less conspicuous, but equally welcome, were dignitaries representing Zaïre's military suppliers, including U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Edward Mulcahy and China's Education Minister Chou Jung-hsin. In fact, Zaïre, the former Belgian Congo, has good relations with practically everyone in the world except the Russians. Mobutu and Moscow are at odds because they back rival regimes in neighboring Angola...
Washington believes that the Chinese are in no position to undertake any major foreign policy shifts because of a crisis in their leadership. Moderate forces appear to retain the control that Premier Chou En-lai engineered for them at the National People's Congress early this year (TIME cover, Feb. 3). But Chou himself, 77, has been hospitalized since May with heart disease. Chairman Mao is semiretired. He is still mentally alert at meetings with foreigners, but his thick Hunanese accent has been made more impenetrable by a speech defect. Even his interpreters must double-check with...
Kissinger's eighth trip to Peking in four years was thus conducted in a chillier atmosphere than the previous seven. The Americans felt that some Chinese officials were brusque almost to the point of rudeness. At one banquet, Kissinger toasted both Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou Enlai, but Foreign Minister Chiao neglected to do the same for President Ford. Observers in Hong Kong believe Kissinger was unnecessarily blunt to the sensitive Chinese...
Part of the trouble may have been the absence of Chou Enlai, 77, the co-architect of Sino-American rapprochement, who is desperately ill with heart disease. Both Chiao and Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, who appears to be running China on a day-to-day basis, are facing increasing complaints from some of their colleagues about the Washington connection. Observers note also that Kissinger and Teng seem to actively dislike each other...