Word: ziyang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Regan's mission, which followed Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang's U.S. tour in January, was meant to help heal wounds that had opened in U.S.-Chinese economic relations and to prepare the way for President Reagan's arrival in Peking at the end of April. Prodded by American manufacturers, Washington set off a 1983 trade skirmish by freezing imports of Chinese textiles at the previous year's levels after talks on a new accord broke down. The People's Republic, which did not begin welcoming U.S. business on a large scale until 1979, responded...
Australian diplomats traveling in China with Prime Minister Bob Hawke were the first to convey the news to Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. When the two leaders sat down at a state banquet, Zhao turned to Hawke and asked, "Who do you think will succeed Andropov?" The official Chinese message to Moscow was brief but surprisingly warm, noting: "It is the sincere desire of the Chinese government to see relations between the two countries normalized...
During his visit, Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang [Jan. 23] stressed that the Taiwan-mainland conflict is "China's internal affair." If France had believed a similar argument by England in 1776, where would the 13 colonies be today...
...lease on 90% of the territory expires. Seven times they have emerged with vague statements that their discussions proved "useful and constructive." But with the eighth round of talks due to begin this week in Peking, Chinese officials mysteriously became quite forthcoming. In San Francisco last week, Premier Zhao Ziyang declared that "Hong Kong will remain unchanged for at least 50 years after 1997." In an interview in the authoritative Peking weekly magazine Outlook (circ. 300,000), a Chinese spokesman on Hong Kong, Ji Pengfei, outlined a remarkably specific blueprint for absorbing that tiny outpost of capital ism into...
...Ronald Reagan had a double meaning in his toast last week to China's visiting Premier Zhao Ziyang when he saw good fortune for both nations in the "Year of the Pig" just past. Redskins Quarterback Joe Theismann, a guest at the elegant dinner, read it right. Just to be certain nothing was lost, Reagan whispered to a friend on the dance floor, "There's a good omen in that for those Hogs...