Word: huang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...protocol. Mao may still be the Chairman, but Chou has emerged as China's unquestioned chief executive officer, ruling the country through what amounts to a working coalition of old-line-and old-aged-party bureaucrats and army officers. In Peking, Chou works in tandem with Army Chief Huang Yung-sheng, 65, an earthy, untraveled man who has little in common with the urbane, sophisticated Premier...
Considerably less charmed were the Americans who faced him nine years later across the table at the Korean truce talks in Panmunjom, where Huang led the Chinese delegation. He refused to speak English, would not 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...
...Canada, Huang faces the most difficult challenge of his career. His reading of the American scene and the reports he cables to Peking will strongly influence Chinese policy toward the U.S. at a particularly delicate moment...
Accompanied by a Chinese cook and his wife, a diplomat who has served in the Foreign Ministry, Huang and his staff of 14 will work from the top floor of Ottawa's posh Juliana Apartments. From there, he will have a fine view of the Canadian Parliament, the Ottawa River and the Gatineau Hills. But the view that is likely to interest him most will be the one he gets-from the press, TV and assorted visitors...