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Since 1976, thousands of once disgraced bureaucrats have been restored to their former positions, and many officials who assumed power during the Cultural Revolution have been cashiered. Chief among the restored officials is Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who has since presided over a dramatic revision of China's policies in education, science and technology. Now, Teng seems to be intensifying the attempt to dislodge the "remnant poison" of the old radical faction that has resisted the sweep toward moderation. Says one Hong Kong analyst: "There are still plenty of people sitting around in various places...
...downplaying of its avowed intention of "liberating" Taiwan by force if necessary -the main obstacle to normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations. Returning from a ten-day visit to China two weeks ago, New York Democratic Congressman Lester Wolff reported that China's top foreign policymaker, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, had told him that Peking was willing to negotiate its differences on Taiwan with the Nationalist Chinese government. Said Wolff: "There was none of the rhetoric we had heard before about the 'murderers on Taiwan.' Taiwan was mentioned in a much more conciliatory framework...
Sinologists are divided on whether China's self-defeating policy toward Viet Nam is caused by inexperience in the conduct of foreign policy, by the notoriously prickly personality of Teng Hsiao-p'ing, or by some obscure power struggle in Peking. Whatever the reason, China's new activism is not only turning old enemies into new friends, but old friends into new enemies...
Peking recalled its ambassador to Hanoi, then summarily closed three Vietnamese consulates in southern China. Earlier this month China's Vice Premier, Teng Hsiao-p'ing, declared a halt to aid to Viet Nam. "China's cash grants to Viet Nam already amount to $10 billion," he told a group of journalists from Thailand. "The only thing wrong is that we have given Viet Nam too much," he added, referring to the vast amounts of military aid given Hanoi during the war, including 80% of the Viet Cong's weapons...
Next day Brzezinski again met with Huang and later with Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping and Chairman Hua Kuo-feng. Brzezinski and his hosts agreed to keep details of the talks confidential, but TIME has learned that he called on the Chinese to use their influence to help counter Soviet moves in Africa. He specifically asked them to urge Robert Mugabe, one of the leaders of the Patriotic Front in Rhodesia, to be more flexible on the Anglo-American plan for bringing majority rule to the country. Brzezinski and the Chinese leaders also discussed their governments' mutual interest...