Word: pengfei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bruce's reception in the Chinese capital was cordial but low-keyed. On the day after his arrival, he was received by Chiao Kuan-hua, vice minister of foreign affairs. Next afternoon Bruce saw Foreign Minister Chi Pengfei; in the evening Chiao Kuan-hua gave a dinner for the entire American mission, including Marine guards and Seabees, at the New Peking International Club...
...under the glittering chandeliers of Paris' Hotel Majestic. Russia's Andrei Gromyko showed his distress at having to sit next to South Viet Nam's Tran Van Lam, who, in turn, frowned at the Viet Cong's Madame Nguyen Thi Binh. China's Chi Pengfei avoided even looking toward Gromyko, but chatted congenially with William Rogers, who affably courted both Chi and Gromyko. But despite all of the sensitivities and animosities around the huge circular table-and after a brief crisis that threatened to scuttle the entire Viet Nam settlement-a 13-party international conference...
...necessarily a friendly one, though. In Peking, at a multicourse banquet for representatives of nations that had voted for China's entry into the U.N., Acting Foreign Minister Chi Pengfei used the occasion to give the delegation an appropriately revolutionary sendoff. "The one or two superpowers are finding it more and more difficult to engage in truculent acts of manipulating the U.N. and international affairs," he declared. "Countries want independence, nations want liberation, and people want revolution-this has become an irresistible trend in the world today...
Right after the vote, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant informed Peking by telegram of the General Assembly action. Four days later came a terse cable, signed by Peking's Acting Foreign Minister Chi Pengfei. A delegation would be coming "in the near future," it said; there was speculation, but no confirmation, that it could arrive this week. In no uncertain terms, Chi made it clear that Peking wanted the Nationalists ousted not only from the U.N. but also from the 13 specialized agencies such as the World Health Organization and the International Telecommunications Union. "I believe," Chi concluded briskly, that...