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Richard Nixon called it "the week that changed the world," and he was not exaggerating. On Feb. 28, 1972, at the close of the American President's historic trip to China, he and his host, Premier Chou Enlai, signed the Shanghai Communiqué calling for a renewal of relations between the U.S. and China, implacable enemies since the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949. The agreement led to an immediate exchange of diplomats by the two nations that had fought so bitterly on the battlefields of the Korean War. Despite the problems that persist, particularly those concerning...
...tour de force of a lasting revolution, he reawakened the historical Chinese yearning for continuity. By a remarkable irony, the leader who seems to have survived in the hearts of his countrymen is not the epic giant who made the Chinese revolution but his more anonymous disciple Chou Enlai, who worked unobtrusively to assure the continuity of life rather than the permanence of upheaval. In February 1973, however, Mao towered above everyone...
...action in Indochina. With this prohibition, Kissinger notes, "our principal bargaining leverage was lost." As a result, an American proposal for a cease-fire in Cambodia was aborted-the Khmer Rouge had no need to negotiate for something that had already been handed to them by Congress-and Chou Enlai, who had agreed to lend China's weight to the proposal, was seriously embarrassed. The Chinese, says Kissinger, were "no longer sure of how steady or reliable a partner we would prove to be." Nonetheless, on Nov. 12, Mao again summoned Kissinger, along with two American colleagues and Chou...
...defendant in the trial of the Gang of Four, Jiang Qing, with ammunition for her defense. Ever since the trial opened in late November, Jiang has claimed that her actions could not be criminal since they had the approval not only of Mao but also of esteemed Premier Chou Enlai...
...comes her turn to make her defense, possibly this week, Jiang Qing is almost certain to make a highly embarrassing claim: that all her allegedly criminal actions were legally approved by the party authorities at the time, including her husband Mao and China's late Premier Chou Enlai...