Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been formed, and every effort is being made to make them feel that not only do they have the backing of Moscow, but of the whole Communist world. This was the main reason last week for the visit to Budapest of Red China's Chou En-lai and the announcement of huge loans from both Red China and the Soviet Union...
...that Stalin's interference in China's affairs-particularly in the Korean war-had all but brought Sino-Soviet relations to the breaking point. With soft words and smooth promises Khrushchev soothed Chinese feelings. Last week the favor was returned. Red China's Premier Chou En-lai was in Moscow to repair with soft words and smooth threats the widening rifts in the Soviet Union's western empire and, incidentally, perhaps to save Khrushchev's neck...
...sudden change of plans, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai this week postponed a scheduled visit to Nepal and cut short his tour of India to rush back to Peking. Probable explanation: before his trip to Moscow next week Chou had to catch up on an unexpected shift in the Chinese Communist line...
With such double-edged greetings blazoned on placards, the people of Burma last week greeted Tourist Chou En-lai to their shores. It was a cruel come-uppance for the Red Chinese Premier, whose sweep through neutralist Asia during the past few weeks had been marked throughout by the smiling affability of a hungry cat in a fish store. India had smiled right back at him, as had Cambodia. On his previous tour to Burma a year ago, Chou had been greeted by well-organized but nonetheless enthusiastic crowds. But since the Red Chinese forays across Burma's border...
Smiling, sleek and self-effacing, his air transport borne aloft on a roseate cloud of good will, Red China's Premier Chou En-lai last week dropped in to New Delhi to pay a call on Jawaharlal Nehru. As blandly charming and tactful as Khrushchev and Bulganin had been blunt and boorish just a year ago, Chou seemed determined to win a smile from Nehru, who was just a mite disillusioned about his Russian friends. As he stepped from his plane, Chou cheerfully endured the perils of a blizzard of tossed rose petals and the weight of garlands...