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Last weekend's display of good will was more than just a matter of pomp and pandas. Reagan met for serious talks with each of China's current leaders: de facto Ruler Deng Xiaoping, Premier Zhao Ziyang, Party Leader Hu Yaobang and President Li Xiannian. The Chinese mentioned Taiwan again and again, but in measured tones; ultimatums were not delivered. Deng, while forswearing any explicit alliance with Washington, made it clear over the course of his 2½ hours with Reagan on Saturday that he shares the American President's fundamental distrust of the Soviets. Several trade...
Inside the Great Hall of the People, to which he would return half a dozen times, Reagan met with Li Xiannian, his nominal counterpart. It was a largely ceremonial meeting with a largely ceremonial Chinese President, but the chat provided a bright diplomatic omen: the men spoke for 35 minutes, several times as long as had been allotted...
Reagan started with a classic Reagan line: "A lot of problems disappear when we talk to each other," he said, "rather than about each other." Then he turned even sweeter, more avuncular. "One had only to look at the beautiful children we saw outside," Reagan told Li, "to know that our job as leaders is to deliver a better world to them than the one we found. That is what we are all here for." Replied Li, who is 78: "You said it very well. It is for the older generation to work for a better world...
...took a turn on the dance floor with the President, shed a tear when he toasted her mother. Princess Grace, said Reagan, "possessed not only an outward beauty but an inward character, sincerity, strength of purpose and loving-kindness." When the last of the revelers had jetted and li-moed home, more than $1 million had been raised for the foundation...
...defendants include three U.S. citizens of Chinese descent: Kuang-shin Lin, 38, of Lincroft, N.J.; Kwong Allen Yeung, 34, of Cortland, N.Y.; and David Tsai, 30, of New York City. Also charged are two Hong Kong residents: Da-chuan Zheng, 41, and his sister-in-law Jing-li Zhang...