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...Ottawa is also disturbed by Washington's increasingly hard line on the 1965 auto pact between the two countries, which was designed to integrate car manufacturing and let Canadians build as many autos as they buy. It has worked more to Canada's advantage than anyone expected, helping to turn Canada's longstanding trade deficits with the U.S. into a $1 billion surplus last year (though such items as interest payments and dividends to U.S. corporations tipped the overall balance the other way, to a deficit for Canada of $60 million). The pact contains so-called "transitional...
...tempting to ride to power on anti-Americanism-directed largely at U.S. corporations' $17 billion of direct investment in Canada. Perhaps some of that feeling will dissipate when the surcharge is removed, if it does not remain in effect too long. In addition, Nixon plans to visit Ottawa next spring; the trip could serve, as did his meeting with Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage, as a symbolic reaffirmation of U.S. good will. But such is the disrepair of the once easy relationship between Ottawa and Washington that it will take more than symbols to convince Canadians that...
...invitations in Ottawa are more prized than the ones that come with the embossed gold emblem of the People's Republic of China. For the legions of journalists, scholars, politicos and adventurers (mostly Americans) eager to get to China, the box office is the top two floors of Ottawa's modern twelve-story Juliana apartments, where the 20-man Chinese embassy staff lives and works. Most visa-seeking visitors are lucky if they can get past the intercom in the foyer, where they are told by a polite English-speaking voice to write directly to the Chinese foreign...
Social Swath. The Chinese are hardly unhappy about all the attention. Huang Hua is frequently seen around the capital, riding in his chauffeur-driven Mercedes or strolling across Ottawa's Parliament Hill. This week Huang sets out on a week's tour that will take him to all ten of Canada's provinces...
...Ottawa's diplomatic social season has barely begun, but the Chinese have already cut a considerable swath. Nearly 400 guests came to an embassy bash last month to meet the ambassador and his petite wife Ho Li-liang, a severely handsome woman in a man-tailored, dark blue suit and glossy black pumps. Two weeks ago, 350 turned out for the embassy's lavish National Day reception...