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There were fewer difficulties on other issues, although Zhao forcefully stated China's claim to Taiwan. "This is China's internal affair," his aides quoted him as saying at one point during the Oval Office session. "We cannot make any commitment to the settlement of the question by peaceful means only...
Another hotspot. North Korea, was also discussed. Zhao alerted Reagan to that country's willingness to hold three-way unification talks with South Korea and the U.S. hours before the Pyongyang government made the offer public. Secretary of State George Shultz and Reagan urged China to participate in such talks, a request Zhao agreed to consider...
...White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes. They gathered last Tuesday in honor of China's Premier Zhao Ziyang, who governs more people than anyone else in this world...
...Zhao Ziyang for all of his billion constituents, seemed in the evening's lovely glow like a favorite uncle, smiling a little too much, wanting to be a bit American, talking about peace and pork chops...
There was a fellow named Harrison who led the U.S. Ping Pong team to China back in 1971, and Connie Chung, the NBC anchor whose parents and four sisters were born in China and who bravely tried her Chinese on Zhao, who bravely professed understanding. Ruth Graham, Billy's beautiful wife, sat on the President's left. Billy was on duty, making arrangements in Europe for his crusade, the only thing that could keep him away. The devil and Richard Nixon...