Volume 17, Number 5 · October 7, 1971
What Nixon Must Do to Make Friends in Peking
By Allen S. Whiting
Summit meetings in the past between an American President and a communist leader have never resolved any existing problems, but they have created some basis of communication and understanding which have helped to prevent conflict. So too the meeting between President Nixon and Chou En-lai is unlikely to bring peace to Indochina or, at one stroke, dispose of Taiwan's future. However, if it is to lead to better relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China, it must go far beyond the 'exchanges of view' of Geneva, 1955, and Glassboro, 1967. It must mark concrete concessions by both sides on the most fundamental clash of interests, US relations with Chiang Kai-shek and the status of Taiwan.[1]
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