Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greatest meal he ever had catered, Manning claims, was coming out of Shanghai after President Nixon's 1972 visit to China. That historic trip had been a seemingly endless sequence of banquets with Chinese delicacies: shark's fin, goldfish in white sauce. The return to the U.S., arranged by flight crews from Guam, was fueled by McDonald's burgers, French fries and milkshakes...
There Mauberley has detailed his strange relationship with Wallis Simpson, the American woman he loved "in the way dogs have of loving the feet at which they lie," from their first meeting in the lobby of the Imperial Shanghai Hotel in 1924. Both were infatuated with the same male. Their two-decade odyssey ends in the Bahamas, where the Duke of Windsor, glazed with alcohol, dressing a model of his mother each morning in fresh clothes, lives out the last degraded years of exile...
Ironically, official Chinese proclamations regularly stress the need to build friendship with foreign peoples. Yet some Chinese who become friends with foreigners are not only intimidated by police but penalized at work. One young Shanghai laboratory technician was recently denied a promotion because, he was told, "you have violated the rules governing contact with foreigners." The technician had failed to report associating with a foreign friend to the lab's security department. For foreigners, too, the new restrictions have been noxious and unsettling. "You never know," says one diplomat, "when simply inviting a Chinese over to your house...
...decade, Sino-American relations have been defined by the Shanghai Communiqué signed during President Richard Nixon's historic visit to Peking in 1972. In that document, the U.S. agreed that mainland China and the island republic of Taiwan, which is governed by the Nationalist Party that fled the mainland after its defeat by the Communists in 1949, constitute "one China." Implicit was the understanding that the U.S., while not severing its ties to Taiwan altogether, would scale them down progressively. In that spirit, the Carter Administration in 1979 closed the U.S. embassy in Taipei and established full diplomatic...
...Chinese accuse Washington of sustaining the old "two Chinas" policy that plainly is incompatible with the provisions of the Shanghai Communiqué. Peking has threatened to downgrade relations with the U.S. if the Administration continues to give military support to Taiwan. Such a step would be a severe foreign policy defeat for the Administration...