Word: tais
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show of splendid in dignation. It meant, thundered the China News, nothing less than a return to a state of war between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. In recognizing the government on mainland China, the argument went, Japan had to break diplomatic ties with Tai wan and abrogate their 1952 peace trea ty, leaving relations between the two countries right back where they were before that year - in a state...
Nonetheless, the summit was relaxed and even breezy. When Tanaka laughingly complained that he was "slightly drunk" because he had had some potent Chinese mao-tai at his guest cottage, Chou assured him that he would "prefer mao-tai to vodka. It's smooth on the throat and doesn't go to your head." He added smilingly that Tanaka, a self-made construction millionaire who is not averse to taking a drink on occasion, "should be able to hold it." Tanaka's hour-long audience with Chairman Mao Tse-tung at midweek was equally jocular...
Curiously, the greatest party lovers were the Chinese. Their embassy receptions, awash with plenty of mind-numbing mao-tai liquor, were the most popular social events in Santiago. But the Chinese were always tough-bargaining businessmen. Last week three of them huddled with three Chilean girls in a combination bar-brothel and were told that the price of the action would be $75 each, double the pre-UNCTAD days. The Chinese held a hasty conference and made a decision: they would share one girl...
...Nixon keep her cool while knocking back all those 120-proof mao-tai toasts in China? Daughter Julie Eisenhower revealed the sober secret: she faked it. "Mother said she never swallowed any of that horrible Chinese liquor the whole time she was there," said Julie. To show the rest of the family what the stuff was like, the President poured some from one of the seven bottles he brought back and touched a match to it. For ten minutes the White House dining room was filled with dragon smoke...
...scene in Peking's Great Hall of the People last week certainly had to be one of history's great ironies. There, while a Chinese army band played America, the Beautiful, a U.S. President merrily clinked mao-tai glasses with his Chinese hosts, long considered the true "baddies" of the Communist world. Nor was it just any American President either; it was a conservative Republican who has long had a reputation as being the perfect cold warrior. The Chinese people must have been deeply startled by the change in their own leaders' attitudes, but they, after...