Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rapprochement with Peking. Utah Republican Orrin Hatch contemptuously called Carter's foreign affairs advisers "loose-jointed and weak-kneed diplomats" and declared that the President should have held out for a better deal on Taiwan. Said Hatch: "All he had to do was stand fast. Mainland China needs this relationship more than the U.S. does." Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater accused Carter of having committed "one of the most cowardly" presidential acts in history and threatened to sue him in court on the questionable ground that a President cannot cancel a treaty without the Senate's approval. Liberal Republican Jacob Javits...
...President's National Security Adviser, who made a diplomatically crucial visit to China last May, has long been the most forceful advocate within the Administration of normalizing relations with Peking. Last week TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott interviewed Brzezinski on his thoughts about the changing Sino-American relationship...
...longterm, common strategic interest in the improvement of our relationship with the People's Republic," he says. "This is not motivated by some tactical 'China card.' It stems from an interest, jointly shared with China, in a world of many centers of power-what we call diversity, or what the Chinese occasionally describe as non-hegemony...
...would like to see. We do not see cooperation among China, the U.S., Western Europe and Japan as a hostile design against the Soviets. In different ways and on different issues, this same cooperation should also involve the Soviet Union. We see no fundamental incompatibility between a better relationship with China and a better relationship with the Soviet Union...
...Greek sculptures comes from Roman copies of the originals? Didn't Rubens copy Titian, and Delacroix Rubens, and so on down the history of art? Perfectly true: but in every case an artist was doing the copying and the result was another work of art. There is no relationship between the copies Rubens made, in the high humility of his mature age, in order to keep learning from Titian, and the mass production of plastic Egyptian lions by the merchandising division of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. There may not be much wrong with such...