Word: ziyang
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Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher indicated as much in a letter last February to Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. The letter did not explicitly concede sovereignty, which London wants to hold as a bargaining chip, but it did, in the words of a Western diplomat, send the Chinese "a very broad signal." As the diplomat loosely paraphrased it, the letter said: "We know you will gain sovereignty, but before we put things down in black and white let's see what you have in mind for administering Hong Kong...
Hawke offered Reagan his government's services to help improve deteriorating relations between the U.S. and mainland China. At the TIME breakfast, he recalled his meeting in April with Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang: "We were surprised at the depth of feeling . . . over what the Chinese perceive to be a deterioration between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China. What concerned them most was the question of the transfer of technology from the U.S. to China. They objected very deeply to being put in the same category as the Soviets and the Communist bloc countries." Hawke said...
...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...
...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...