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...Peking, Haig found China's boss, Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, feeling let down, the victim of a Carter maneuver: the widely heralded normalization of relations was used for U.S. political gain, but the agreement for credits and technology was never pushed. Deng needed, and got from Haig, a new American response, one that implied action...
...Deng discredits Mao and wins acceptance of his pragmatism...
Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping and other political leaders were expected to focus not on specifics but on broad strategic considerations. With the support of Administration officials, including National Security Adviser Richard Allen, the Secretary hoped to build a consensus between Washington and Peking on the two countries' shared wariness of the Soviet Union. Haig wanted to discuss the possibility of U.S. support for a united front in Cambodia against the Vietnamese-backed regime in Phnom-Penh. He also wished to explore the feasibility of cooperating with the Chinese in supplying arms to the rebel forces in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan...
...wandered in the library's lobby among photographs and mementos of his trip to China in 1975. There is a picture of Ford trooping the line in Peking with Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, another of Betty Ford, shoes off, dancing with the children of a ballet class. It is fascinating how much recent Presidents have adopted the Chinese nation as their reference point of triumph and adventure...
...When Deng, in a 1978 interview, discussed Mao's inadequacies, he suggested that the old man had been 70% right and 30% wrong. Huang's assessment though lacking in specifics, follows that ratio, and Western diplomats in Peking last week interpreted the speech as a trial balloon. If those masses who visit the Tiananmen tomb do not accept the critique, the leadership will probably go a step further and reveal specific errors. If they do, the way should be clear for a sixth party plenum next summer at which Mao's place in history will be more...