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...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. The challenge Haig faced...
...Taiwan government, which still has influential friends in the Reagan White House and on Capitol Hill, saw Haig's visit in another light. Taipei contends that China is using its ties with the U.S. only to conquer short-term difficulties and that the two countries are bound to turn hostile again. And if Washington sells Peking any arms, the Taiwanese warn, beware the long-range consequences. C.J. Chen, director of the North American affairs section of the foreign ministry in Taipei, put it succinctly by quoting a Chinese proverb: " 'If you feed a tiger, sooner or later...
...equally obvious that nothing short of a comprehensive Middle East agreement, including a just settlement for the issue of Palestinian self-determination, will bring true peace to the region. After the Tammuz raid, no Arab country can accept Secretary of State Haig's thesis that Soviet adventurism is a greater threat to the area. No less a figure than Saudi Arabia's King Khalid made the point last week during a visit to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Without movement toward that regional goal, even the most conservative Arab states may give...
...efforts of Secretary of State Alexander Haig to form a "strategic consensus" that Soviet expansionism in the Middle East, not Israel, is the greatest threat to Arab security. Warned Moustafa Khalil, Egypt's former Prime Minister: "If the Arabs see the U.S. failing to check Israel, failing to improve Arab self-defense, failing to solve the Palestinian problem, what are they going to do? They will have no alternative but to turn to the Soviet Union." The Soviet news agency, TASS, called the Israeli raid an "act of gangsterism" and accused Washington of being a direct accomplice...
...both Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski. The Soviet threat, similar to one sent to the Czechoslovaks three days before Soviet tanks moved into Prague in 1968, exacerbated an open rift within the Polish Central Committee and elicited a stern warning to the Soviets from U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig. The U.S., said Haig, holds "the firm view that the Polish people should be left alone to determine their future course." Only a compromise decision not to bring matters to a head allowed Kania to defuse the immediate crisis and buy some time...