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...first of the three Teng-Carter summit meetings was to be held around the burnished mahogany table in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Vice President Walter Mondale, Vance, Brzezinski and Ambassador-designate to China Leonard Woodcock were scheduled to join Carter. According to U.S. officials who have drafted an agenda, the first major subject was to be a general review of global issues. The talk is virtually certain to focus on China's obsession: Soviet activity around the world. Other likely topics include such crisis situations as Viet Nam's rout of the Chinese-supported regime in Cambodia...
High on the summit agenda was a discussion of how to improve trade relations, specifically a way to resolve the problem of frozen assets held by both sides. A longer-range possibility is that the U.S. might grant most-favored-nation status to China. Until now, the highly restrictive emigration policies practiced by both China and the U.S.S.R. have prevented those countries from benefiting from M.F.N. status, under the terms of the 1973 Jackson-Vanik Amendment. Lately, however, Peking has sharply upped the number of emigration permits granted Chinese citizens seeking to join-relatives in the U.S., from about...
White House staffers could scarcely attend to preparations for the summit meetings, so besieged were they by calls from would-be banqueters. "People will kill for a ticket to the state dinner," declared one amused businessman. Sighed a senior White House official: "If we invited everyone who claims an undeniable right to come, we'd have to hold the damn thing in the Capital Center"?a reference to Washington's 19,000-seat sports arena...
Moscow's dismay over the growing links between Washington and Peking is going to be a longtime problem for U.S. policymakers, and could cancel out any gains that might result from Teng's visit. Vance argued two weeks ago that the Carter-Teng summit will "increase the chances of maintaining a stable equilibrium among the U.S., Japan, China and the Soviet Union." But Soviet officials do not see it that way, and as Teng touched down in Washington, the delicate triangular relationship among the U.S., China and the U.S.S.R. was hanging in the balance...
...suggesting more or less regular summit meetings...