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That said it all. The words were spoken by China's Party Chairman and Premier, Hua Kuo-feng, earlier this month during a four-hour address before the Eleventh National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. But they were released last week only a few hours before the arrival in Peking of U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. The central purpose of the Vance mission was to determine whether there was any chance for a compromise between the U.S. and China on the problem of Taiwan -the key issue blocking the establishment of full diplomatic relations between Washington...
Vance's reception in Peking, reported TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden, was polite but noticeably restrained. The airport greeting was a crisp handshake from Foreign Minister Huang Hua and Huang Chen, chief of Peking's liaison office in Washington: no band, no honor guard. On the drive into the city, Vance's Red Flag limousine passed thousands of cheering demonstrators-who, as it turned out, were celebrating, for the third day in a row, the successful completion of the awaited party Congress...
With that swift work, the short, stocky, usually smiling Wang disposed of the leaders of the radicals in the post-Mao struggle for power in China and opened the way for the triumph that Chairman Hua Kuo-feng and his so-called moderates celebrated at the eleventh Party Congress. There, Wang also got his reward: he was named one of the four party vice chairmen and placed on the Standing Committee, which runs China's 35 million-member party - and thus the nation itself. Along the way Wang also got a personal encomium from Chairman Hua, who praised...
...April 1976, shortly after his emergence as Mao's prospective heir, Hua joined Chiang Ch'ing and her group of radicals in attacking Teng's "counterrevolutionary line." Since he became Chairman last October, however, Hua has gradually and tacitly conceded that the heretic was right. One Teng tactic that Hua has adopted has been a tough line on law and order, in an attempt to put down the widespread strikes and other civil disorders that have plagued his regime. The troubles are largely the result of anger and cynicism among workers who have been subjected to wild...
Resurrecting Teng as a political power may prove more troublesome for Hua than rehabilitating his policies. One reason is that the new Chairman's claim to legitimacy rests on Mao's supposed deathbed benediction of his leadership. Thus the restored presence of Teng, who was twice ousted by Mao, may suggest to party workers that Hua is vulnerable. The Chairman, in fact, is a relatively youthful (56) political newcomer without a power base in the party or the armed forces to bolster his position. Moreover, Teng has become something of a national hero because of his feisty, down...