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Since the fighter-plane decision, China has become testier in its comments about the U.S., even referring to it as a "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...
...surface-to-surface experimental No. 4-is relatively crude. But it showed that China intends to allocate scarce resources to hold its own in what it calls "a world in great turmoil." Said Vice Premier Li Xiannian: "Our tests are aimed at strengthening China's defense against the hegemonist powers...
...Sharifs twirl six-shooters in each hand. But the cinemas are open only in the afternoons, and ticket sales are slow because, it is said, people fear grenade throwing. Next to the movie posters are government placards showing a turbaned official Afghan hero thrusting his bayonet at a Chinese "hegemonist" and at a terrified Uncle...
...officials were certain that Teng and his aides would go on at length about the Soviets' "hegemonist intentions." Said a Government analyst who has heard Teng's presentations several times: "They've been doing that to us for six years." Another State Department expert predicted that no matter how muted Teng might prove in his public statements, in private he would stress that the primary object of his trip was to persuade the U.S. to take a tougher stance toward the Soviet Union. That, said the expert, would take precedence even over Teng's search for help in modernizing China...
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