Word: sino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mixed with the welcoming festivities and the obligatory sightseeing tours was some serious business. The talks centered not so much on Sino-French relations per se as on China's intensifying interest in Western Europe as a bulwark against Soviet "hegemonism." As successor to De Gaulle, Pompidou is, in Chinese eyes, heir to De Gaulle's vision of a strong, independent Europe, a vision which Peking supports. Chou and Mao thus warned Pompidou of the extent of the Russian menace. "The danger of war still exists," insisted Chou during an evening banquet. The danger, he added, comes from...
...pantsuits, have been too busy to worry about how they looked. No woman leader has been seen wearing a dress in public since the cultural revolution. Heads snapped, therefore, when Chiang Ching, who is also Mrs. Mao Tse-tung and No. 3 in the Politburo, appeared at the floodlit Sino-U.S. basketball game in Peking wearing a well-tailored gray midi with white sandals and a white shoulder-strap bag. The Americans won 89 to 59. But Mrs. Mao, dazzling in her nonuniform and seated next to American Envoy David Bruce, had scored the most points...
Henry Kissinger touched on Watergate, telling them: "You are here at a time when home policy is more in the news than foreign policy. When you get home, tell your friends that everything they know of our purposes remains intact, that this [Sino-American détente] is a matter of the United States, not this or that transitory event...
...likely to be friendly. Chu Mu-chi's seven brief dispatches through the New China News Agency have already signaled a new mellowing. "The American people are a great people," he wrote in one story, promising that the Chinese journalists "will make their own contribution" to growing Sino-American friendship...
...Asian market. The island also produces Sanyang motorcycles. Taiwan lately has switched to seeking capital-intensive heavy industry in order to stay a jump ahead of Malaysia and Indonesia, where labor costs are even cheaper. Its biggest catch: the Kaohsiung shipyard, a $27 million joint Sino-American enterprise whose annual capacity will be 1.5 million shipping tons. Together with older yards, Kaohsiung will make Taiwan the world's 15th largest ship-building nation...