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DISCUSSION ON ARMS CALES HAD BEEN UNPRODUCTIVE. EVEN ON THE RESUMPTION OF LOW-LEVEL MILITARY VISITS THE CHINESE HAD REMAINED EVASIVE. HUMMEL WAS UNCERTAIN WHAT THEY WERE WAITING FOR AND
SPECULATED IT WAS NOT ONLY GOOD US PEHAVIOUR OVER TAIWAN BUT ALSO
FREER TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY.
6. ON TEXTILES, BOTH SIDES AGREED THERE WAS A PROBLEM BUT NO
PROGRESS WAS MADE ON SORTING IT OUT.
7. ZHAO ZIYANG WAS LIKELY TO VISIT THE US LATER THIS YEAR BUT
HAD CAREFULLY AVOIDED SPECIFIC DATES.
3. UN SINO-SOVIET RELATIONS, THE CHINESE REPEATED THE IR OPPOSITION TO HEGEMONISM. EESPITE THEIR PRESS TREATMENT AND WHAT THE CHINESE SAW AS US LAPSES IN A NUMBER OF FIELDS, CHINA DID NOT PUT THE US IN THE SAME BRACKET AS THE SOVIET HEGEMONISTS.
THIS HAD BEEN MADE CLEAR IN ANSWER TO US COMPLAINTS. THE CHINESE REITERATED THEIR STAND ON CAMBODIA AND AFGHANISTAN. BUT THEY EXPLAINED THEY SOUGHT BETTER STATE RELATIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION AND IMPLIED THAT THEY MIGHT CONTINUE TO SEEK THESE EVEN THOUGH THEIR THREE MAIN DEMANDS (CAMBODIA, AFGHANISTAN, FRONTIER TROOPS) WERE NOT MET. AS HUMMEL SAW IT IT WAS NO LONGER
APPROPRIATE TO TALK OF SINO-US COOPERATION IN CHECKING HEGMONISM AS IN THE PALMIER DAYS OF 1979, BUT THE INTERESTS OF THE TWO COUNTRIES WRERE STILL SIMILAR IN MANY AREAS.
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9. THE CHINESE COMPLAINT OVER SOUTH KOREAN-US MANOEUVRES HAD
BEEN BRIEF AND MADE ONLY BY VICE FOREIGN MINISTER HAN XU.
10. ON THE FALKLANDS, THE CHINESE HAD CHIDED THE AMERICANS FOR MAKING A MISTAKE IN BACKING SRITAIN WITH CONSEQUENT DAMAGE TO COMMON INTERESTS IN THE THIRD WORLD. SHULTZ HAD ANSWERED ROBUSTLY THAT THE US, LIKE CHINA, HAQIPRINCIPLES AND ONE WAS OPPOSITION TO ATTEMPTS TO SETTLE DISPUTES EY AGGRESSION.
THE CHINESE HAD NOT TAKE THE MATTER FURTHER.
11.
PERSONALITIES, THE US DELEGATION HAD BEEN FAVOURABLY IMPRESSED, AND SURPRISED, BY FOREIGN MINISTER WU XUE QUAR'S MACTERY OF HIS BRIEFS AND HAD FOUND HIM PERSONALLY AGREEABLE. IN A REVERSAL OF THE USUAL ROLES IN WHICH HE FOREIGN MINISTER WAS UNPLEASANT AND THE SENIOR LEADERS URBANE, DENG HAD BEEN UNEXPECTELY TOUGH IN A LONG INTERVIEW, BUT CENERALLY HE AND
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