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...White House banquet honoring China's Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, Shirley MacLaine enthusiastically recalled a trip to the People's Republic and a meeting with a nuclear physicist. Since being sentenced to a commune to grow tomatoes, she told Deng, the scientist said he felt much happier and more productive. Replied Deng politely: "He lied." Such rosy reports have been as predictable as the years of the Monkey, Pig and Goat, but from time to time, a Dengian antidote has been offered. Fox Butterfield's China: Alive in the Bitter Sea and Richard Bernstein's From...
...scene was deceptively convivial. There was Vice President George Bush, smiling affably as his host, Chinese Communist Party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, raised a glass of mao-tai in a toast to Sino-American friendship. In fact, after two days of talks with China's top leadership, Bush had failed to mend a relationship between the two nations that has been deteriorating virtually from the day President Ronald Reagan took office. When Bush returned to Washington last week, he could only say that he was taking some unspecified "new ideas" back to the President, together with a Chinese warning...
...highest-ranking member of the Administration yet to visit China, arrived in Peking bearing a reassuring personal letter from Reagan. Though the Chinese received Bush with personal expressions of friendship, neither his entreaties nor Reagan's letter changed any minds in Peking. Deng underscored the seriousness of the Taiwan issue by asserting that he hoped Bush's visit would "dispel the shadows and dark clouds that hang over our relations...
Some Administration officials believe that China has as much interest as the U.S. in maintaining close ties. The stubborn Chinese position, they argue, only reflects internal struggles as Deng tries to accommodate hard-liners in his party. But that view may underestimate the depth of Chinese feeling about Taiwan. "It's a matter of national pride, of sovereignty," says a Peking intellectual. "If we compromise on this score, future generations will curse us for having sold...
...Chinese have shrewdly made use of the Soviet overtures to prod the U.S. to cancel its decision to sell arms to Taiwan. The day of Brezhnev's speech, a Peking magazine published remarks by Party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, again cautioning the U.S. that there was no room for compromise. If Washington did not reverse its decision to supply Taiwan with weapons, Deng said, "let the relations [between the U.S. and China] retrogress. So be it." Administration policymakers cannot count on Chinese mistrust of the Soviet Union alone to ensure harmonious Sino-American relations...