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...Kennedy Airport last week, no one could find a key to the door of the loading platform, and the door had to be taken off its hinges before Peking's men could disembark. Then the loudspeaker system went on the blink just as Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua uttered the first words of his arrival speech. Chiao manfully went ahead anyway, and the words were duly recorded for television: "The people of the United States are a great people, and there exists a profound friendship between the peoples of China and the United States...
Rhetorical Smoke. The Chinese indicated that they were intent on serious diplomatic business by naming a high-powered delegation (see box), whose ten members, headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua, are particularly well-grounded in Soviet and U.S. affairs. One reason for fielding a team heavily laden with Americanologists is that the corridors and lounges of the U.N. present abundant opportunity for bilateral contacts with the U.S. delegation, which has assigned two China experts to its own staff. Thus Peking's men in the U.N. will constitute an unofficial embassy...
...people from the People's Republic are all dedicated revolutionaries, but they are also well-born intellectuals, educated elitists who have traveled widely and are no strangers to the purlieus of diplomacy. All speak English. The head of the delegation, tall, lean, youthful-looking Deputy Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua, 57, can switch when necessary to French or Japanese or Russian or German, the last of which he acquired (along with a Ph.D. in philosophy) at Tübingen University in the 1930s...
...late as 1965, when Indonesia was waging a new guerrilla war against Malaysia, Britain met the threat by maintaining a force of 70,000 men in the area. "But for the forces of the Far East Command during the years of confrontation," said Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, "it would have been a very different Southeast Asia." The annual cost of $630 million proved too great, however, and in 1966 Harold Wilson's Labor government announced that Britain would withdraw from east of Suez. Now that the Malaysian area has been quietly stabilized, Britain will station...
...delegation, but not for its leadership. Urbane, soft-spoken Chang Wen-chin, who heads the Peking Foreign Ministry's department of Western European and U.S. affairs, could be the man. But at week's end the leading possibility seemed to be Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Chiao Kuan-hua, a onetime journalist who speaks fluent English. Chiao has most recently been in charge of China's negotiations with the Russians on the Sino-Soviet border dispute...