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...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 the shift in China's attitude toward the United States...
...Beyond the U.N. issue, Taiwan's principal concern is fear of withdrawal of U.S. military support. It has a modern and powerful armed force, and Secretary of State William Rogers has assured the Nationalists that the U.S. will stand by its commitments to defend the island against any mainland attack. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week voted to repeal a 1955 congressional resolution that had redundantly empowered the President to use all means to defend Taiwan against attack. The vote on the repeal in no way abrogated the U.S. defense treaty with Taiwan. But Taipei is worried about...
...Nixon's elation was appropriate. Unless some unforeseen and unlikely event aborts his trip, he will become the first Western head of state to visit Peking since Mao Tse-tung's revolutionaries drove Chiang Kai-shek's government out of power and off the mainland in 1949. He will thus dramatically shatter nearly a quarter-century of total official estrangement between the two powers. Certainly, that refusal to deal directly with each other has been blindly unrealistic, and in a sense Nixon's overture was only a move long overdue; it was high time for both nations to change their...
...legal casinos three years ago, now takes in about $2,000,000 annually from the operations. Macao, long the mecca of Asian gambling, has been upgraded from seedy dens where croupiers wore undershirts to gilded halls in lavish hotels boasting Thai masseuses. The tiny Portuguese colony off the Chinese mainland today draws 1,300,000 visitors a year, many of them sped there by gleaming hydrofoils or ferryboats featuring strip shows...
...embargo on Chinese imports last month, Americans have wondered precisely what tempting goods the People's Republic could offer. Part of the answer arrived last week in San Francisco: 11,350 pounds of tinned and packaged delicacies imported by Wo Kee & Co.-the first commercial shipment from the mainland allowed in the U.S. for 21 years. Sample goodies: fried longtailed anchovies, lotus paste, red date soup, bitter melon, spiced grapefruit skin, sauce of cuttlefish, dried dace (a fish), and a candy called white rabbit rolls...