Word: friendships
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...received other benefits from the China connection. Washington gained an influential friend in United Nations councils dominated by the Third World, where American policy has frequently been scorned. What is more, the friendship with China reduced the defense burden of the U.S. in East Asia. Says a senior State Department official: "We were able to redeploy forces from that region to other parts of the world...
...hegemonist power," an epithet that the Chinese had long reserved for the hated Soviets. Deng Xiaoping told a visiting U.S. businessman that relations between the two countries were "not good," and the New China News Agency has spoken obliquely of a possible "retrogression" in the friendship. There were no speeches or celebrations in China to mark the close of the "American decade...
...after President Reagan sent a message to Premier Zhao Ziyang expressing his desire for "an even stronger framework for long-term friendship," Zhao replied in a similarly cordial tone, saying in effect that China was willing to try to break the Taiwan deadlock. Clearly, in the vital interests of both nations, they must do so. As Richard Nixon, reflecting on his finest hour, wrote last week in the New York Times, "The bottom line is that both sides must recognize the paramount importance of preserving the new relationship. Neither of us can allow anything, including differences over Taiwan, to jeopardize...
...purpose of the meeting was to underline that friendship between the U.S. and China was to be consummated while Mao was still alive. As we headed for the easy chairs, he said: "I don't look bad, but God has sent me an invitation." Somehow it did not seem incongruous that the dialectician of materialism should invoke the Deity. No being of lesser rank could presume to interrupt the Chairman's labors. Even more striking was the casualness with which Mao treated the imminent end of his rule and hinted at the urgency to complete certain business...
Jernigan has made several visits to the Harvard campus since January, mainly to play with buddy Boyum. The two have struck up a friendship, playing and often competing in many of the same junior and men's amateur tournaments...