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Soon after arriving in Peking, Brzezinski met with Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua for 2½ hours at the Great Hall of the People on T'ien An Men Square. While U.S. and Chinese officials furiously scribbled notes, Brzezinski in his staccato voice outlined the American view of global problems, particularly concerning Soviet moves in Africa and the Middle East. He described Soviet policies in Africa as "stupid" and predicted that Moscow's relations on the continent would worsen. Pulling out maps and multicolored charts, he analyzed the world strategic balance, insisting that the U.S. was growing stronger...
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...
...Hua Kuo-Feng? Moynihan? Nicky Barns? Vance? Lance...
...actually be aiming at targets much higher than Mayor Wu and the others. Some wall posters, believed to have been written by Teng's backers, complain, for example, about striking "blows only at low levels and not on top." That could only be an implicit criticism of Chairman Hua and his policies in the post...
...Hua has been much more cautious than his Vice Premier about moving to erase the radical legacy of the Cultural Revolution. Some experts even speculate that the aim of Teng's campaign may be to discredit Maoism itself, or at least that part of the hagiology that is invoked by opponents of the push for modernization. Teng could start, according to some China analysts, by probing the extent of Mao's support in the last months of his life for the activities of his now discredited wife and her radical comrades...