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...Communists insist that the U.S. close its embassy in Taipei, abrogate its 24-year-old mutual defense treaty with Nationalist China, and accept the Communist claim that the offshore stronghold is simply a province of the People's Republic. "We are talking about recognition," Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiaoping said during his current visit to Tokyo, but "on these three conditions we are waiting for the U.S. to make up its mind...
Throughout the vast land, the New China News Agency delivered itself of rhapsodic song. "As the plane carrying Deputy Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing approached Tokyo Bay, towering Mount Fuji caught the eye with its beautiful snowy peak standing out in bold relief against the blue...
That effusion was only the beginning. For days last week the avalanche of words and pictures from Peking's official press inundated the Chinese people on the occasion of Teng's historic visit to Japan. Chinese television was dominated by images of the ebullient leader, smiling here, strolling there, chatting, speechmaking, and altogether relishing his role as an eminent guest of his former enemy...
...Teng has survived to see his once scorned pragmatic economic program adopted as state policy. At the same time, thousands of provincial party leaders have been purged as co-conspirators of the Gang of Four, and Teng loyalists who had been ousted by the gang have been rehabilitated. In one huge demonstration in Shensi province last month, 741 people who had been branded by the radicals as a "black den of spies" were welcomed back to the party fold. Two weeks ago Teng stage-managed the removal of Tseng Shao-shan as first party secretary of industrial Liaoning province...
...There's an inexorable quality to Teng's way of operating," says one Hong Kong Sinologist. "He patiently isolates and weakens his enemies and then, when the moment is right, he gets rid of them altogether." Analysts believe that the Vice Premier's power grab worries Chairman Hua, who has been attempting to keep the purges from splitting the party leadership into pro-and anti-Teng factions. The fact that Wu lingers on in the Politburo suggests that Hua has somehow worked out a face-saving compromise - allowing Teng his vengeance while preventing bloodshed from weakening party...