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...Wichser incident was obviously meant to serve as a warning to foreigners, and any nationals who might befriend them, to chill such contacts. The Chinese xenophobia reached a peak during the Cultural Revolution but eased in 1976 after the death of Mao Tse-tung. Indeed, Mao's successors "rectified" the error of his fear of foreigners by encouraging association with them as a basis for learning. At the time, of course, contact could be controlled: the diplomats lived in compounds, the foreign press was cautious, and the students and teachers who came were mostly believers in the Maoist revolution...
...eager was China for reconciliation with the U.S. that it was prepared, according to Chairman Mao Tse-tung, to wait indefinitely to settle the problem of Taiwan, the island 90 miles off the coast, where the defeated Nationalists had taken refuge in 1949. The Chinese regarded Taiwan as a breakaway province and felt that the U.S. had been defending it as a separate state. Mao emphasized that he was far less concerned about the Taiwan issue than about the problems of the world (see SPECIAL SECTION...
Meetings in a book-choked study in Peking with Mao Tse-tung, the aging leader of one-quarter of all mankind. "I don't look bad," Mao told Kissinger just three years before his death, "but God has sent me an invitation." Much remained to be done, Mao was implying, and little time in which...
During his lifetime, Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the Communist Party of China, was shrouded in mystery and reverence much as were the emperors he replaced. When I visited Peking in February 1973, Mao's portrait was everywhere. The emphasis on personality in a Marxist system was astonishing. It was as if the titanic figure who had risen from humble origins to rule nearly one-quarter of mankind did not trust the permanence of the ideology in whose name he had prevailed. In fact, in attempting to inflict upon his country the tour de force of a lasting revolution...
...spectacular collapse of the Nixon Administration less than 19 months later. Next week's third and final installment will recount the increasingly acrimonious debate over detente as Watergate began to drain authority from the U.S. presidency and Kissinger's dramatic encounters with Leonid Brezhnev and Mao Tse-tung, the men who were guiding the destinies of America's principal adversaries...