Word: lais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China produced a second surprise last week. At Peking airport. Premier Chou En-lai welcomed Outer Mongolia's Premier Yurnzhagiin Tsedenbal, 46, who is normally regarded as a Russian puppet. Whisked off in a black. Soviet-made limousine among crowds dutifully waving Chinese and Mongolian flags, Tsedenbal was put through the usual routine of toasts, banquets and fulsome speeches. Then, on the same day that Red China announced plans to define its borders with Pakistan, Tsedenbal and Chou En-lai signed a treaty fixing the 2,500-mile frontier between their two countries...
...Bandung conference. Nehru and China's Premier Chou En-lai embraced Panch Shila, a five-point formula for peaceful coexistence. The same Indian crowds that now shout. "Wipe out Chink stink!" then roared "Hindi Chini bhai bhai" (Indians and Chinese are brothers). India refused to sign the peace treaty with Japan because Red China was not a party to it. At home, Menon harped on the theme that Pakistan was India's only enemy. Three years ago, when Pakistan proposed a joint defense pact with India, Nehru ingenuously asked, "Joint defense against whom?" Western warnings about China...
...shall make friends-whoever is interested to accept our hand. If friends let us down, we shall not consider them as friends. Friends that stand by us, we will stand by." He did not have to look far for new friends. From Peking came an offer from Chou En-lai for a nonaggression pact between Red China and Pakistan, as well as an invitation to Ali to visit the Chinese capital to discuss arbitration of the border problems between the two countries. With almost indecent haste, Ali accepted the invitation...
...Prince Norodom Sihanouk, prides himself on broad vision, but often his vision extends only as far as the borders of his own tiny kingdom. Last week, while the rest of the world was pondering Peking's aggression in India, Sihanouk sent off an incredible letter to Chou En-lai asking for protection from "imperialist threats" and flattering Red China as "the protector of small nations against imperialism...
After production statistics, about the most carefully concealed figures in Red China belong to the bosses' wives. Premier Chou En-lai's plump partner is often in the spotlight because she herself is a veteran Communist, but hardly anyone ever sees the wives of Chairman Mao Tse-tung and his second in command. Liu Shao...