Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon and Kissinger were struck by Chou's toughness and assurance as a bargainer as well as by his mastery of detail-when it served the Premier's purpose. He was well-briefed on the facts of Nixon's life, for instance. At a banquet in Shanghai, he studied the menu to make sure that changes he had ordered had been made. Chou may, in fact, have been a little too attentive to detail. After American reporters discovered that the well-dressed, cheerful Chinese milling about the Ming tombs with transistor radios had been planted there...
TENSION ON THE Thai-Cambodian border can only continue to mount because of an increase in Thai activity in Cambodia. Nevertheless, in the joint U.S.-China communique signed in Shanghai on February 27, the U.S. side stipulated that it will "progressively reduce its forces and military installations on Taiwan as the tension in the area diminishes." Last week Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird emphasized that Vietnam is a focal point of tension in the area...
Hidden Talks. All this was elaborate scrollwork, hiding content. The substance of the week's talks was finally revealed in a 1,500-word joint communique released just before the President left Shanghai to return to the U.S. It contained no great surprises, no great letdowns. If the communique had said any less than it did, the trip would surely have been considered a failure. It might have said a little more; it largely dwelled on the need for friendship without getting down to many specifics...
...more to the talks in China than meets the eye in this communiqué. A beaming Kissinger insisted that the U.S. was very pleased: "It exceeded our expectations." That may well be so, but expectations tend to be in the eye of the beholder, and for some, the Shanghai communiqué will be too little-and for others, too much...
...Reels. Although Nixon was to set foot in China during a 50-minute rest and refueling stop in Shanghai, where he would pick up a Chinese navigator, interpreter and radio operator for the 710-mile final leg to Peking, the first public ceremony was to be at the Peking airport. Conveniently timed for mass TV viewing Sunday night in the U.S.-Monday morning in Peking-this would be the first of the television spectaculars on a mission in which television rated a high priority in the White House planning. Although the White House refused to confirm any details...