Word: summiteers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strains of the Chinese national anthem sounded first last week on the south lawn of the White House, as summit protocol demands. Then the U.S. Army Band gave an equally rousing version of The Star-Spangled Banner. From a windswept podium on the crest of the low hill, the two leaders exchanged bland welcoming remarks, then mounted a balcony to acknowledge the applauding crowd of some 1,000 dignitaries. Suddenly, Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing departed from the traditional script. He impulsively grabbed Jimmy Carter's hand and held it high. They looked like a pair...
...Teng's visit are known. At the very least, his tour marks a dramatic new phase in the relationship between the two giant nations, a phase symbolized last week by the signing of scientific and cultural-exchange agreements, by the prospects of greatly increased trade and of another summit conference in China later this year. Over and over, Teng made it clear that he is urgently looking for American credit and technology to modernize his backward nation. The early signs are that he will get much of what he is seeking...
...summit with Teng officially began at 10 a.m. on a gray and threatening Monday. Teng and his diminutive wife Cho Lin pulled up to the south lawn, in a black armored limousine and were warmly greeted by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. Teng briskly walked down the line of 35 U.S. dignitaries, shaking hands with the zest of a U.S. politician, and then clambered onto the small red-carpeted reviewing stand. The wind gusted so hard that Rosalynn reached out to steady Cho Lin as she wobbled on the steps...
...serious business of the summit began at 11 a.m., when Carter ushered Teng to his seat at the highly polished mahogany table in the Cabinet Room. "May I smoke?" asked the Vice Premier, pulling out a pack of Chinese-made Panda filter-tip cigarettes. Soon the air was thick with smoke. And soon the two leaders discovered that they liked dealing with each other. There was no posturing and no haggling during the three face-to-face sessions. At one point, Michel Oksenberg, the National Security Council's China specialist, slid a scribbled note across the table to Presidential...
There was no levity when the leaders turned to two Chinese obsessions: the Soviet Union and Taiwan. In an interview with TIME on the eve of the summit, Teng had delivered a scathing attack on Moscow, describing the Kremlin as "the true hotbed of war" and saying that if China, Japan and the U.S. "really want to be able to place curbs on the polar bear, the only realistic thing for us is to unite...