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Nixon can undoubtedly survive the anguish on the right. What matters most, both for Nixon's political fortunes and the best interests of the U.S., is the eventual outcome of the trip. Its success lies largely in the hands of a wily and America-wise Chinese leader, Chou Enlai, and Washington's warnings against expectations of spectacular results were surely justified. But on balance, the bold mission to Peking is more than anything else an occasion of hope and opportunity...
...behind his back. The leader of a Red Guard unit during the frenetic Cultural Revolution, which all but paralyzed China between 1966 and 1969, Yao was accused of mounting a raid on the Chinese foreign ministry, burning down the British chancellery, and plotting a personal assault on Premier Chou Enlai. Yao's reported sentence: ten years in prison...
Meanwhile, China's leaders continue to draw a sharp distinction between the "friendly American people" and the "fascist, imperialist Nixon government." Premier Chou Enlai, the architect of Peking's exercise in Ping Pong diplomacy, has told several recent visitors that there has been "no thaw" at the governmental level. Although the new trade list is clearly a step forward, no one expects a quick change in that chilly situation...
China today is in the hands of a coalition of military men and relatively moderate administrators led by Chou Enlai. While the army deals with the giant task of repairing the domestic fabric, Chou runs the central government and foreign policy, free for the first time in years from internal politics and the supercharged atmosphere of Maoist hysteria. No outsider knows Mao's personal role, but Western analysts generally assume that he is probably overseeing the army's domestic reorganization program and that his trust in Chou is almost total. At any rate, both the army...
...likely that China will go that far yet. But Premier Chou Enlai, who Roderick says remembered him after a lapse of 23 years, had a jovial chat with the journalists. "Mr. Roderick," he said with a smile, "you have opened the door." He promised that more U.S. journalists would be admitted later "in batches." Almost immediately, usually stone-faced officials at Hong Kong's China Travel Service smilingly expressed the hope that other applications to Peking would be successful...