Word: visiters
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When Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger arrived in China last week for a fortnight's tour of oilfields and industrial centers, he was the fourth high-level member of the Carter Administration to visit a nation that the U.S. does not formally recognize. Schlesinger was hoping to sound out Chinese leaders on ways to end that anomaly. Jimmy Carter would like to recognize the Peking regime, preferably before the 1980 presidential campaign gets fully under way, but the effort involves major diplomatic difficulties, and it may provoke a political storm in the U.S. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott...
...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...
...clearly the latest Israeli action was also an effort to chastise the Carter Administration for the visit last week of U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Harold Saunders to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Saunders' purpose had been to assure Jordan's King Hussein that U.S. policy in the Middle East had not changed: Washington still believed that Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank is illegal. The U.S. hoped to convince Hussein that the time had come for him to join the peace process and to strengthen Sadat's position in the negotiations, increasing the chances...
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...
Indeed, the Chinese?and the Japanese, for that matter?were right to treat this visit as a stupendous event. The sleeping giant of Asia, xenophobic, almost rabid in its suspicions of other nations, had awakened to the possibilities of the real world. It had decided to confront the Soviet Union's expansionist designs on the one hand and its own economic backwardness on the other. To achieve this, Peking was willing to make a great leap outward. Not long ago, China's titular leader, Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, traveled to Rumania, Yugoslavia and Iran, making deals, offering Chinese friendship...