Word: zhao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week both sides came close to laying their cards on the table. The decisive session occurred during a four-day visit to Peking by British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe. After seven hours of bargaining with his opposite number, Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian, Howe spent 90 minutes with Premier Zhao Ziyang in the Purple Light Pavilion, where Emperors once gave audiences to "barbarians" bringing tribute. Finally, the Foreign Secretary went on to the Great Hall of the People and spent an additional 40 minutes with Deng Xiaoping, China's de facto leader, who has elevated the recovery of Hong...
...National People's Congress in Peking. Although Thatcher can expect to receive overwhelming support in the House of Commons, Deng may have to persuade hard-liners that he is not being extravagantly generous toward the citadel of laissez-faire capitalism. If all goes well, Thatcher and Zhao could sign the final treaty before the end of the year, and poker faces may even give way to smiles. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by Murray J. Cart/Hong Kong and David Aikman/ Peking
...fact, the arms talks were shadowed by a sudden impasse in negotiations to sell nuclear-power-plant technology to the Chinese, the most substantive accord of Reagan's trip. The President had relied on statements from Premier Zhao Ziyang that Peking would comply with U.S. nuclear nonproliferation policy. But reports suggesting that the Chinese had aided Pakistan's nuclear-weapons program led Reagan to seek further assurances. Zhang, said one U.S. official, "blew his top." Even so, Zhang took off on a two-week tour of America's arsenal that includes F-16 assembly lines in Fort...
...trip was full of such encouraging portents. No longer did Chinese leaders talk of "dark clouds" over the Sino-American relationship. Instead, their language was conciliatory. In a final phone conversation before Reagan's departure, Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang told him, "I think your visit has enhanced understanding and improved relations between our two countries...
White House aides are convinced that the present regime in China is genuinely pragmatic and sincere in its desire for modernization. Even when de facto Ruler Deng Xiaoping and Zhao criticized Reagan privately for U.S. policies in the Middle East and Central America, TIME Peking Bureau Chief David Aikman reported, they seemed more concerned about means than ends. The Chinese leaders tacitly approved of Reagan's steps to check the U.S.S.R. (including his arms buildup), but warned the President that he needed to be more artful in his dealings with the Soviets, who are skillful meddlers and propagandists...