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When he was a hot-eyed student leader in the 1930s, Westerners in China described him as "a zealous, devoted, incandescent Communist." Now Peking's ambassador to Canada, Huang Hua is radiating a different sort of incandescence. As the first envoy from Mao Tse-tung's regime to set up shop in North America, he has become the most sought-after diplomatic celebrity in the Western Hemisphere...
...noon on July 9, Kissinger and his aides landed at a deserted airfield on the outskirts of Peking. They were met by Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, a high-ranking Politburo member and two Foreign Office officials. Also on hand was Huang Hua, one of Peking's top experts on U.S. affairs, whose move to Canada as Ambassador to Ottawa had been delayed because of the Kissinger trip. The group drove to a handsome villa on a small lake outside Peking and sat down to a sumptuous Chinese lunch. While the rest of the U.S. delegation, adjusting to their environment...
WHEN the Great Proletarian Revolution burst over Communist China, Peking recalled all but one of its 42 ambassadors. The lone exception was Huang Hua, then Peking's man in Cairo. His dedication to Communism and his diplomatic acumen in directing China's relations with all of Africa and the Middle East had obviously earned the confidence and respect of China's leaders, even in a period when they were not inclined to trust many people...
Thus it was natural that when Peking began dismantling the wall of isolation erected during the Cultural Revolution, Huang Hua (Yellow Flower) was named to head one of China's most sensitive foreign posts, the new embassy in Canada. When Huang, 58, arrives in Ottawa some time in the next few weeks, he will become the Communist government's first ambassador in North America...
...shake hands with the American delegates and interminably denounced them as "capitalist crooks, rapists, thieves, robbers of widows." At one session, his marathon attacks became so insulting that Arthur Dean, chief American negotiator, gathered up his papers and stalked out of the conference room. One American participant recalls: "Huang Hua was quite stunned. He cried 'Come back!' That was the only time I heard him use English...