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Earlier Malraux had suggested that Mao Tse-tung's first question to Nixon would concern economic aid from the "richest nation in the world" to one of the poorest. It did not seem like a very plausible prediction about the proud foe of capitalism. But it fitted in with
...children's hospital, a school, a factory, the Summer Palace and Peking's shops. But off-limits, as they have been for more than 20 years even to most Chinese, will be some of the most scenic areas, among them the idyllic Central-South Lakes, where Mao Tse-tung lives in a one-story house...
ALIGHTHEARTED, relaxed garden town studded with classic temples and pagodas and elegant villas, Hangchow (pop.800,000) is China's Florence. Famous for its silks and teas, Hangchow is a favorite resort of China's leaders. Mao Tse-tung frequently retires to his retreat on mist-shrouded West Lake, sometimes merely to escape the rigors of the capital, sometimes to hold informal, substantive meetings with foreign visitors after the Peking formalities...
Chou's task is complicated by the fact that he has no political following. no power base other than his close, 40-year relationship with Mao Tse-tung. In the past, those have been assets. Chou has been on the Politburo for 42 years, longer (by three years) than Mao; this durability reflects his skill at avoiding passionate commitments to policies or dogma. In that sense, Chou is utterly unlike Mao. "Chou is a conformist," says Rand Corp. Sinologist Thomas Robinson. "He often swims with the tide. Mao wants to cause-and, if necessary, reverse-the tide...