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...wife Pat and two of Peking's diplomats, he posed briefly at the doorway of the gleaming Chinese Boeing 707 jetliner. With that, the Richard Nixons flew from Los Angeles last week for a nine-day trip to the People's Republic of China, invited by Chairman Mao Tse-tung to mark the fourth anniversary of the former President's door-opening visit there. No fewer than 20 newsmen followed along. On hand to greet Nixon at the Peking airport was Acting Premier Hua Kuo-feng and other top Chinese officials...
...accused the Chinese of meddling in U.S. domestic politics. "Mao doesn't know what New Hampshire means, much less where it is," said a U.S. Government Sinologist. Most China watchers agree that Mao wants to reaffirm, as part of his political will and testament, the Shanghai communique of 1972 that promised "normalization" of relations between the U.S. and China. By inviting Nixon, Mao is using him to underscore Chinese impatience with the slow progress toward full diplomatic recognition of Peking and with the Ford Administration's emphasis on U.S.-Soviet detente...
...Chinese people are encouraged to express their doubts, when they have them--there's an aphorism paraphrasing Mao's thought that goes, "If you have something to say, speak up; once you have started, say it right to the end." Nonetheless, renegades don't have it easy in The People's Republic. During the Cultural Revolution of the late '60s, Teng Hsiao-ping seems to have run afoul of Chairman Mao, perhaps by criticizing the regime unconstructively--that is, by venturing beyond practical issues and raising more fundamental questions about Party ideology. Teng's momentary lapse into a counter-revolutionary...
...press and its sources were sort of taken aback when their speculation fell through and Hua Kuofeng, instead of Teng, took Chou's place. The mark on Teng's political record limits the amount of influence he can really hold. In his book, Prisoner of Mao, Jean Pasqualini recounts a conversation with the chief warden of a Chinese prison for "reform through labor" (Lao Gai) that might have some bearing on the way things have turned out for Teng Hsiao-ping. Many former inmates of this labor camp for ideological reform continued to hold jobs there, away from their families...
...Enemies. Hua may have emerged as a compromise choice in part because his very lack of visibility made him a man with few enemies. Affable and softspoken, with a thick Hunanese accent, Hua is described by foreign visitors as politically adroit and nondoctrinaire. It helped that he comes from Mao's native province of Hunan, where he spent most of his career as a high regional party official and became an expert in agriculture, which is the backbone of China's economy. Significantly, he went to Peking just after former Defense Minister Lin Piao tried to overthrow Mao...