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...Nixon arrived in Peking on a chill, foggy night aboard a white Chinese Boeing 707 that appeared on the airport tarmac like a phantom out of the mist. The former President and Mrs. Nixon walked down the red-carpeted ramp to be greeted by China's Acting Premier Hua Kuo-feng, Foreign Minister Ch'iao Kuan-hua and a group of 350 Chinese. There was no military guard to greet Nixon and his entourage of 20, including 15 Secret Service men (20 journalists were also along, among them TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, who was with Nixon...
During his four days in Peking, Nixon met with Acting Premier Hua four times for a total of ten hours. He had an hour and 40 minute audience with Chairman Mao, finding him "alert, in good humor, and gracious...
Partly Sandbagged. In his more weighty public remarks, Nixon, inadvertently or not, did exactly what the Chinese would have wanted. At the opening banquet, hosted by Hua Kuo-feng, he seemed to paraphrase China's own foreign policy position by saying: "There are, of course, some who believe that the mere act of signing a statement of principles or a diplomatic conference will bring lasting peace. This is naive." Many believed that Nixon was alluding to the Ford Administration's signing of the Helsinki declaration with Moscow, an act strongly condemned by China. Nixon denied that interpretation...
Despite all the adverse comment, the Nixon trip cannot simply be ignored in Washington. The ex-President, after all, is the first American to discuss policy with China's newly named Acting Premier Hua. He also received the most detailed briefing yet given to anyone on the meaning of the political campaign now sweeping China (see THE WORLD). Thus the Administration, as Henry Kissinger said last week, will definitely debrief Nixon after his return...
...trip to the People's Republic of China, invited by Chairman Mao Tse-tung to mark the fourth anniversary of the former President's door-opening visit there. No fewer than 20 newsmen followed along. On hand to greet Nixon at the Peking airport was Acting Premier Hua Kuo-feng and other top Chinese officials...