Word: ziyang
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...Before him on the White House lawn, a fife-and-drum corps stepped loudly and flawlessly through its paces. In the distance, a knot of pro-Taiwanese demonstrators chanted protests against his presence. Thus in noisy, if peculiarly democratic fashion did the U.S. capital greet Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. Zhao, the highest-ranking Peking official ever to visit the U.S.,* had come to shore up a wobbly relationship. Said Zhao at the White House ceremony: "I come as a friendly envoy of the Chinese people for the purpose of seeking increased mutual understanding...
...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 comes calling on the U.S. "There is a saying," Premier Zhao Ziyang once remarked of his agricultural experiments in China's Sichuan province, " 'When you cross the river, you grope for the stones' But you must cross the river. You cannot just jump over it." This week Zhao will apply that delicate maxim to the troubled waters of Chinese-U.S. relations, which until three months ago were in their most turbulent state since Richard Nixon's opening to China in 1972. As he left Peking for his first visit to the U.S. and talks...
Many of the first signs of a cultural crackdown were exquisitely subtle. Premier Zhao Ziyang quietly forsook his Western suits for Mao jackets. The Peking municipal government ordered its employees to shave off their mustaches. The capital's leading hairdressing salon announced that it would no longer give men permanents. Many of the first casualties were similarly obscure: a Peking shopworker who procured two illustrated sex manuals from a Hong Kong businessman and reproduced 7,000 lucrative photos of their choicest scenes; an enterprising commune in Fujian province that used its pooled resources to acquire twelve video recorders...
...cordiality apparent during Weinberger's trip does not mean there will be a great leap forward in U.S.-China relations. The Chinese, as Premier Zhao Ziyang told Weinberger, are waiting to see if U.S. words will be "proved by deeds and actions." The U.S. must worry whether Peking is using it mainly as a pawn in its closer-to-home struggle with the U.S.S.R. But for an Administration that early this summer announced plans to sell Taiwan $800 million in arms, relations are perhaps better than could have been anticipated...