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...think we could work out a peaceful settlement very quickly." Such thoughts obviously still remain tantalizing, and some kind of deal on the war was a possible goal of the summitry in Peking. It was conceded that the war had been discussed by Henry Kissinger and Chou En-lai in their 16 hours of secret conversations. At the least, Kissinger must have outlined U.S. plans for virtual disengagement before Nixon's trip. The possibility of Nixon being welcomed to Peking at a time of fierce combat between Communist and U.S. forces would be improbable. Premier Chou last week told...
...China and its leaders as Author Edgar Snow (Red Star Over China). As a journalist, he has traveled in China since the 1930s and has had unequaled access to the thinking and policy shifts within the Chinese government, and his personal knowledge of Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai dates from the rise of the Communist movement on the mainland. The first public indication of Mao's willingness to meet with President Nixon was contained in Snow's report in LIFE Magazine on his most recent visit to Peking last winter. In the current LIFE, Snow describes...
...words were justified. In just 90 seconds of television time, President Richard Nixon last week made an announcement that altered many of the major assumptions and patterns of postwar diplomacy. The President would go to Peking to meet with China's Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai before next May. The arrangements had been made by his National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, during a secret meeting with Chou in Peking the week before...
...Peking's response was exceptionally restrained, considering its past responses to American military moves. Nor did the invasion of Laos unduly upset the Chinese. By this time, it was the North Vietnamese who were disturbed, reacting with alarm to the mildness shown by their ally. Chou En-lai led a delegation to Hanoi to reassure them...
...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, ate with chopsticks, Kissinger stuck to knife and fork. At 4 in the afternoon, Chou En-lai arrived and serious talks got under way. Chou and Kissinger sat on opposite sides of a table covered with green felt and talked through dinner and on into the night...