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...eager was China for reconciliation with the U.S. that it was prepared, according to Chairman Mao Tse-tung, to wait indefinitely to settle the problem of Taiwan, the island 90 miles off the coast, where the defeated Nationalists had taken refuge in 1949. The Chinese regarded Taiwan as a breakaway province and felt that the U.S. had been defending it as a separate state. Mao emphasized that he was far less concerned about the Taiwan issue than about the problems of the world (see SPECIAL SECTION...
Meetings in a book-choked study in Peking with Mao Tse-tung, the aging leader of one-quarter of all mankind. "I don't look bad," Mao told Kissinger just three years before his death, "but God has sent me an invitation." Much remained to be done, Mao was implying, and little time in which...
...this, he adds, that became "the key to the Chinese-American relationship at a point when few concrete results were achievable and our bonds depended on intangibles. Our ties were cemented not by formal agreements but by a common assessment of the international situation." In two long talks with Mao in 1973, Kissinger helped solidify those ties...
During his lifetime, Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Communist Party of China, was shrouded in mystery and reverence much as were the emperors he replaced. When I visited Peking in February 1973, Mao's portrait was everywhere. The emphasis on personality in a Marxist system was astonishing. It was as if the titanic figure who had risen from humble origins to rule nearly one-quarter of mankind did not trust the permanence of the ideology in whose name he had prevailed. In fact, in attempting to inflict upon his country the tour de force of a lasting revolution...
Around 11 p.m. on Feb. 17, while Chou and I were meeting in the state guesthouse, we were summoned to a meeting with Mao. The Chairman's domicile was modest, like that of a middle-level functionary. Inside, Mao stood in front of a semicircle of easy chairs. Books were everywhere...