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Defense Minister Geng Biao's ouster, by contrast, was considered to be politically motivated. After Mao Tse-tung's death in late 1976, Geng, 73, supported then Party Chairman Hua Guofeng, who was later purged, in arresting the so-called Gang of Four. His appointment as Defense Minister early last year was seen at the time as a compromise choice between the Maoist generals and Deng's supporters in the military. The new Defense Minister is Zhang Aiping, 72, a general who has headed the Scientific and Technological Commission for National Defense. One of Deng...
...late 1979. Even before Ilyichev arrived in Peking three weeks ago, the Sino-American relationship was undergoing its most intense growing pains in a decade. The immediate cause of difficulty is a flare-up of the old dispute over the status of Taiwan. More than three decades after Mao Tse-tung's takeover of the mainland, the Nationalist government on the island still calls itself the Republic of China. Peking, on the other hand, regards Taiwan as a province under the sovereignty of the People's Republic. The Shanghai Communiqué that Nixon and Chou En-lai approved...
...Soviet Union to economic cooperation, "not on a modest, but on a massive scale." He believes the Chinese want the same thing. "When I first went to the People's Republic in 1972," he recalls, "the conversation was all geopolitics. Economic assistance hardly came up at all. Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai made clear that they weren't about to sell their ideology for a bowl of economic pottage. What we talked about was survival in the face of the common Soviet threat. On this last trip, by contrast, the present leaders wanted to talk about...
...point, Sadat wanted to have all the permanent members of the Security Council meet in Jerusalem with the Geneva Conference members. It was difficult to dissuade him. I could not see any way to get Mao Tse-tung, Jim Callaghan, Giscard d'Estaing, myself and Brezhnev all to come. It was already too much to get the Palestinians and Syrians to sit at the same table with the Israelis...
Knowing Nixon's fascination with other people of power, like Mao Tse-tung, Kissinger stocked up on personal information about world leaders. He also supplied stories about the Ivy League, both good and bad, which the boss relished. Muskie twitted Carter about his inept fly casting but praised him for superb fly tying. Rusk bent to Kennedy's appetite for humor. Ordered to track down and fire a leaker, Rusk traced the culprit to the Oval Office. "I can't fire him, Mr. President," phoned Rusk. "It's you." They both roared...