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This was only the beginning of trouble for the tottering Manchu dynasty. In October 1860, English and French troops occupied Peking and burned the Summer Palace--almost a ritual of earlier barbarian invasions--after the Imperial Court arrested British envoy Harry Parkes. Each year brought more evidence of China's military inferiority. A most humiliating defeat came in 1894 with the Sino-Japanese War. Losing to their despised neighbors finally awakened China's educated class to the Middle Kingdom's vulnerability in much the same way as the American, English, French and Dutch bombardments in 1863 and 1864 aroused Japan...
International Fiancier Sol Linowitz, former U.S. representative to the Organization of American States, finds it difficult to believe that the U.S. could be active in subversion while the American mission was headed by Ambassador Nathaniel Davis, a circumspect career envoy. Even Democratic Senator Frank Church, who conducted hearings into the assorted plots by multinational ITT and the CIA against the Allende government, says...
...Politburo, appeared at the floodlit Sino-U.S. basketball game in Peking wearing a well-tailored gray midi with white sandals and a white shoulder-strap bag. The Americans won 89 to 59. But Mrs. Mao, dazzling in her nonuniform and seated next to American Envoy David Bruce, had scored the most points...
...weeks ago, a special envoy from India arrived in Dacca, the capital of Bangladesh, to discuss the POW issue with Sheikh Mujibur. The New Delhi Statesman reported that the envoy was "seeking to end the stalemate in the POW issue," adding that he would have to go Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, after concluding his talks with Sheikh Mujibur...
When President Nixon named the first U.S. representative to Communist China three weeks ago, he underlined the importance of the post by enticing out of retirement one of the country's most distinguished diplomats, David K..E. Bruce. Last week the Chinese government reciprocated. As its first envoy to Washington, Peking chose a close associate of Premier Chou En-lai who also ranks as a full member of the Communist Central Committee. He is Huang Chen...