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Thus two cheers-or perhaps a modest wall poster?-for Chairman Mao...
...25th Communist Party Congress going on in "revisionist" Moscow. Clearly, the Chinese wanted to show their unhappiness over the slow pace of "normalization" under the Ford Administration and, more importantly, over Washington's support of the policy of detente with the Soviet Union. When Nixon was President, Mao & Co. evidently believed that he stood for a strong U.S. position against the Soviet Union. With Ford and Kissinger, however, the Chinese believe, rightly or wrongly, that the U.S. has become dangerously "soft" on the Russians...
During his four days in Peking, Nixon met with Acting Premier Hua four times for a total of ten hours. He had an hour and 40 minute audience with Chairman Mao, finding him "alert, in good humor, and gracious...
...next night the Nixons were invited to a soirée presented by the Performing Arts Troupe of China, at which Mao's wife, Chiang Ch'ing, served as host. When the troupe finished a song promising the liberation of Taiwan, Chiang Ch'ing jumped to her feet and ' applauded wildly. Nixon half rose and applauded perfunctorily in turn. When he was told later that a news account described him as having stood and applauded the song, Nixon angrily replied through an aide: "Like hell I did! It was just a gentleman-to-a-lady gesture...
...ideological villains who have been specifically denounced in China's waves of usually indirect criticism. Among the others: former Head of State Liu Shao-ch'i, the chief victim of the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69, and former Defense Minister Lin Piao, who allegedly plotted to assassinate Mao...