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...some places, to be sure, Nixon's exit was received with regret and even foreboding. Chiang Kai-shek's regime on Taiwan was upset over the demise of the man who had been one of its strongest political allies in the U.S. since the 1950s, even if he did initiate Washington's rapprochement with Peking. The Thieu regime in Saigon was privately fretful. Drawing a lugubrious analogy, one former South Vietnamese Cabinet officer noted that "even after Nixon married off Viet Nam, his daughter, in the Paris agreement, he still very carefully looked after her interests...
...made in Asia, where women have traditionally had low status. In Japan, a fast-growing feminist movement and a sex-blind college-admissions policy are propelling women into politics and business at high levels. In China, sex discrimination is officially considered a reactionary remnant. Though Mao's wife Chiang Ching is the only woman among the 20 regular members of the Politburo, Peking's highest ruling body, a more impressive 40 women belong to the 309-member Central Committee of the Communist Party...
...there has apparently been a resurgence of anti-imperialism in the provinces. In Szechwan, for example, the provincial radio reported a rally condemning the World War II Chinese American Cooperation Center (which was actually a technical-assistance facility for the Chinese secret police) where, it was said, "U.S.Chiang Kai-shek reactionaries had slaughtered the Chinese people...
...Chou En-lai the ultimate (if still unnamed) target of these ideological onslaughts? There is no question that the campaign against the Peach Mountain opera was launched by Chou's leftist enemies - notably Chiang Ching, wife of Mao Tse-tung - and that by making it a national issue, his radical adversaries have proved their strength. Still, this does not mean that the pliable, politically skillful Premier Chou is in any immediate danger of being isolated in the emerging struggle over who will succeed the aging...
...allegiance to Chou have quietly been brought back into important government positions. Chou himself put on an impressive display of party unity recently when he appeared at a banquet for visiting Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda. By his side were two of his most powerful critics: Wang Hung-wen and Chiang Ching...