Word: premier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing of China...
...would terminate formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, cancel the 1954 mutual defense treaty that committed the U.S. to guarantee Taiwan's military security and withdraw the 700 U.S. troops now on the island. On March 1, the U.S. and Peking would exchange ambassadors. Moreover, said Carter, Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 74, the shrewd and pragmatic chief architect of Peking's remarkable Great Leap Outward to the West, would visit Washington at the end of January for an unprecedented series of summit talks...
That evening the suspense ended, on both sides of the world. While Carter was reading the joint communique on TV in the U.S., Hua Kuo-feng, China's Premier and Communist Party Chairman, was reading the statement to about 100 Western and Communist reporters in Peking. It was the first press conference ever held by a Chinese Communist Party Chairman, and Hua was in good form. He even answered a few questions, ritualistically describing Taiwan as "a sacred territory of our country" and its people as "compatriots of our own flesh and blood...
...final steps in the negotiating process had been taken at Peking's initiative and that the Chinese had done most of the giving. Said he: "We have maintained our own U.S. position firmly, and only since the last few weeks has there been an increasing demonstration to us that Premier Hua and Vice Premier Teng have been ready to normalize relations...
...Sunday, Dec. 17, a psychologically important deadline because it had been set as the goal for a treaty when the Camp David summit concluded, in a burst of exuberant optimism, exactly three months earlier. But at week's end, reluctantly acknowledging that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin were still far apart on the few unresolved issues, a disappointed Vance abruptly cut short his shuttle and returned to Washington. As Vance headed home, a weary Sadat met with his aides, and the Israeli Cabinet held a special five-hour session that resulted, to nobody's surprise...