Word: deng
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...Chinese leaders are hypersensitive on the Taiwan issue partly because they are feeling vulnerable to internal critics of their own. The huge Chinese Communist Party (39 million members) contains diehard Maoists, provincial military commanders who function as virtual warlords and others who oppose Deng Xiaoping's policy of turning to the capitalist world for help. They also accuse him of subjecting China to humiliation over the sale of the new U.S. jets to Taiwan...
...Deng and his comrades are eager to deny that they face any significant opposition. Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang told one recent visitor that dissidents "do not number more than 200,000, and they have now been scattered all over the country." But Western experts suspect that the problem is more serious. Part of the reason that the leaders are publicly browbeating the U.S. over Taiwan is to prove their patriotism to party colleagues and to fend off the charge that they have let the U.S. push China around...
...visits of Nixon in September and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in early October to send discreet positive signals back to Washington. Nixon and Kissinger were both told repeatedly by the top Chinese leaders that there is no need for concern about Ilyichev's return to Peking. Deng said that "no real and fundamental improvement in Sino-Soviet relations" was possible until the U.S.S.R. had met three conditions. The Soviets must pull out of Afghanistan, which shares a narrow border with China. Moscow must end its support for Viet Nam's military takeover of Cambodia. Indochina...
Nixon sees Deng Xiaoping, his comrades and his successors...
...leaders spent 2½hours (about half of it in translation) exchanging contrary views and, for all intents and purposes, agreeing only to disagree. Then, in an unfortunate conclusion to the visit, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher left her final meeting in Peking with China's senior leader, Deng Xiaoping, only to stumble face first on the broad stairs. The unintended symbolism of the spill in full view of television cameras was not missed. On her arrival in Hong Kong Sunday, on the last leg of a two-week Asian tour, the Prime Minister faced a barrage of local criticism...