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...tough with China's chronic problem of factional strife, especially when it leads to work stoppages and violent confrontations, as in Hangchow last year. On the other hand, Hua's almost complete lack of experience in foreign affairs may mean that Foreign Minister Ch'iao Kuan-hua and Teng Hsiao-p'ing, in the spirit of collective leadership, will continue to concentrate on relations with other countries. If that is the case, there is no reason to expect any major changes in China's foreign policy. What has changed, however, is Teng's status...
Chinese Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua set his chopsticks beside his bowl of shark's fin and crab meat. Then he rose and made a toast. "The stark reality is not that détente has developed to a new stage, but that the danger of a new world war is mounting," Chiao told 300 listeners in Peking's Great Hall of the People. "To base oneself on illusions will only abet the ambitions of expansionists and lead to grave consequences. In the face of the growing danger of war, China's fundamental policy...
Seoul, however, opposes any direct U.S. talks with Pyongyang unless South Koreans are present, and Pyongyang refuses to sit down with the South Koreans. Only last month, moreover, Chinese Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua denounced as "of no avail" Kissinger's own plan for peace: a conference that would include the U.S., China, the two Koreas, and possibly Japan and the Soviet Union. In an interview with TIME last week (see page 35), Kissinger said, however, that he did not think this was absolutely the last word on the subject...
...unlikely. "Whether Hanoi avoids Peking's wrath will depend on how successfully the North Vietnamese can make it appear that they are working in Asia's interest and not just in their own or the Soviet Union's," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. "Hanoi just cannot allow the Russians to build a base in North Viet Nam. What it can do is throw the Soviets a little bait now and then, like servicing a ship or two at Cam Ranh...
Just such a disruption took place in many Chinese communities on Feb. 4, the day that an earthquake struck an industrialized area in Liaoning province. According to the Chinese publication Earthquake Frontiers, at 6 p.m. that day an announcement was made over the public-address system in the Kuan-t'un commune: "According to a prediction by the superior command, a strong earthquake will probably occur tonight. We insist that all people leave their homes and all animals leave their stables." As an added incentive for people to go outside, the commune leaders also announced that movies would...