Word: zhao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Irish wit and Boston wisdom, Tip O'Neill, 70. The Speaker of the House has been spending his Easter recess in China with a contingent of 13 Congressmen on an itinerary that last week included visits in Peking with both Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, 78, and Premier Zhao Ziyang, 64. After venturing that there had been "a tremendous meeting of minds," O'Neill let slip at a press conference with Western journalists that "we had no knowledge before we came as to the strong position of the Chinese government with regard to the Taiwan question." While reporters gaped...
...well: he published an article in the Times Weekly magazine in Taipei that described the mandatory birth control program in Chinese villages. The article was illustrated with photographs of women in advanced states of pregnancy who were about to have abortions. Peking saw the article as anti-Chinese propaganda. Zhao Fusan, a top official of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, warned Kenneth Prewitt, president of the Social Science Research Council, that if Mosher were not disciplined, there could be "negative consequences" for scholarly exchanges. In February 1982, Fusan asked Stanford to "deal with this matter sternly...
...major theme,however, was not so much politics as economics. Painfully aware of the costly lessons of the past 24 years, Premier Zhao Ziyang unveiled a belated five-year plan for China's development from 1981 to 1985 that stressed small strides instead of great leaps. Zhao predicted an average annual growth rate of only 4%, which, in fact, has already been surpassed in the past two years (1982 growth rate: 5.7%). Zhao was also refreshingly candid about his country's economic difficulties, admitting that Peking's decision three years ago to shift emphasis from traditional heavy...
Hence the decision to let the Soviets send Ilyichev back to the negotiating table. Hence also Premier Zhao Ziyang's recent call for a "common endeavor to combat the superpowers' hegemonism," a deliberate use of the plural that lumped the U.S. together with the Soviet Union as a threat against "peace-loving and justice-upholding countries and peoples...
...Chinese also risk alienating a U.S. Administration that at its highest levels is none too enthusiastic about Sino-American relations. Zhao's attack elicited a sharply worded response from Washington protesting "unfriendly" statements and "simplistic sloganeering." Secretary of State George Shultz is having second thoughts about going through with a tentatively scheduled visit to China later this year, and Reagan is cool on the idea of making a trip of his own next year...