Word: hua
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honor Ohira, Carter sat through a two-hour service in the Budokan, a martial-arts hall redecorated for the occasion. Premier Hua, dressed in a gray Mao jacket, was in the front row and, although the two men did not meet, they looked firmly at each other, as though each was taking the other's measure...
Before meeting with Hua, Carter gave an interview on Japanese television designed to ease increasing Soviet worries that the U.S. and China were about to gang up on the Soviet Union. Said the President of the U.S.-China moves: "We believe that this relationship should not be used by either country against the Soviet Union. We should not combine our efforts against another nation, but we should combine our efforts to maintain peace...
Though he had been up for 24 hours before finally getting to bed, Carter rose early the next morning for his session with Hua-15 minutes alone, an hour accompanied by aides. The meeting proved to be informal and spontaneous. Hua impressed the Americans as witty and candid. At one point, while his interpreter was droning through a pompous English translation of the Chinese official line, the Premier grinned broadly at Carter. Later, Hua used an American cliché to put down Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who has accepted $1.6 billion in Soviet aid in exchange for Indian recognition...
...leaders unveiled no new policies, but found much to agree about. They encouraged each other to supply more arms to Thailand, which in June repelled a border incursion by the Soviet-backed Vietnamese. Hua told Carter that he had seen TV pictures of American planes unloading howitzers in Thailand. It was, he said, a "wise and important" move...
...President tacitly indicated that the U.S. would be silent about Chinese military moves along its 480-mile border with Viet Nam, short of outright war. The Chinese keep 250,000 to 300,000 Vietnamese troops occupied along that border. Hua backed U.S. efforts to get the Soviets out of Afghanistan and promised Carter that the Chinese would not question U.S. moves in the Middle East. He expressed "very, very strong" support for American efforts to acquire military bases in Kenya, Oman and Somalia as a counterweight to Soviet influence in the Persian Gulf region...