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...arrived in Peking on a chill, foggy night aboard a white Chinese Boeing 707 that appeared on the airport tarmac like a phantom out of the mist. The former President and Mrs. Nixon walked down the red-carpeted ramp to be greeted by China's Acting Premier Hua Kuo-feng, Foreign Minister Ch'iao Kuan-hua and a group of 350 Chinese. There was no military guard to greet Nixon and his entourage of 20, including 15 Secret Service men (20 journalists were also along, among them TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, who was with Nixon...
Partly Sandbagged. In his more weighty public remarks, Nixon, inadvertently or not, did exactly what the Chinese would have wanted. At the opening banquet, hosted by Hua Kuo-feng, he seemed to paraphrase China's own foreign policy position by saying: "There are, of course, some who believe that the mere act of signing a statement of principles or a diplomatic conference will bring lasting peace. This is naive." Many believed that Nixon was alluding to the Ford Administration's signing of the Helsinki declaration with Moscow, an act strongly condemned by China. Nixon denied that interpretation...
...People's Republic of China, invited by Chairman Mao Tse-tung to mark the fourth anniversary of the former President's door-opening visit there. No fewer than 20 newsmen followed along. On hand to greet Nixon at the Peking airport was Acting Premier Hua Kuo-feng and other top Chinese officials...
Once again, China seems to be embroiled in a power struggle between its ideological factions. One week after the unexpected appointment of the relatively unknown Hua Kuo-feng as the country's acting Premier (TIME, Feb. 16), leftists in Peking's leadership launched a violent attack on their "rightist" enemies. The radicals' rhetorical onslaught, if it continues to grow, could upset the plans for a smooth leadership succession carefully worked out by Chou En-lai before his death last month...
...Teng Hsiao-p'ing, Chou's hand-picked First Vice Premier, as his successor. Most surprisingly, the Chinese leadership last week passed over Teng and appointed a relative unknown as Acting Premier, pending eventual approval by the rubber stamp National People's Congress. He is Hua Kuo-feng, 56, Minister of Public Security and No. 6-ranking Vice Premier (among the twelve...