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Since the Peking summit of 1972, Chinese leaders have notably muted their anti-American diatribes. But at a banquet last week for General Khieu Samphan, commander of the insurgent Communist forces in Cambodia, Premier Chou En-lai lashed out at the U.S. for having "brazenly made a massive invasion into Cambodia." In an oblique reference to Richard Nixon, Chou contemptuously dismissed the President's oft-stated goals for détente with the comment: "The revolutionary people do not all believe in a so-called lasting peace' or a 'generation of peace.' So long as imperialism...
Another Kissinger favorite, surprisingly enough, is French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert, who has been the Secretary's most acerbic critic in European assemblies. Kissinger's superlatives, though, are saved for Chinese Premier Chou Enlai, whom he describes as "the greatest statesman...
...forging Washington's new links with Peking and establishing a personal rapport with Chou, Kissinger shrewdly capitalized on China's fears of Soviet expansionism. Tuning, Kissinger readily concedes, has always played a large part in his success as a statesman. But says one Washington friend and admirer: "Sure, a lot of doors open for him. but he walks through them with class...
Many observers believe that a group of radicals in the Politburo, headed by No. 3 Man Wang Hung-wen, a leader of the radical cadres in Shanghai, and Mao's wife Chiang Ching, have been trying to use the Confucius-Lin campaign to gain leverage against Chou-possibly with the goal of determining who will eventually succeed the aging...
...that is the aim, the campaign is a long way from success. Largely because of Chou's leadership, since the Tenth Party Congress last August, membership in the Politburo is stable for the first time in nearly a decade. The power of independent military commanders in the provinces was curbed by a shuffle of command posts late in January. Moreover, several dozen formerly discredited cadres who owe their allegiance to Chou have quietly been brought back into important government positions. Chou himself put on an impressive display of party unity recently when he appeared at a banquet for visiting...