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  31 WHY, p. 1055; Memorandum for Henry A. Kissinger, 6 August 1971, NSA, Electronic Briefing Book No. 66, Doc. 35, p. 30; Memorandum of Conversation, 21 October 1971, NSA, Electronic Briefing Book No. 70, Doc. 11, pp. 3, 8

  32 USOH, Thayer; USOH, Green, ch. VI

  33 USOH, Freeman; Ambrose, Nixon: Education, p. 618; RN, p. 339; Ehrlichman, p. 297

  34 Strober and Strober, p. 128; USOH, Freeman

  35 Isaacson, p. 198

  36 Hersh, pp. 52, 33

  37 Haldeman, Diaries, pp. 289, 253—4; author interview with Kissinger;

  Haldeman, Diaries, pp. 253–4

  38 Haldeman, Diaries, p. 413; USOH, Freeman

  39 Memorandum of Conversation, 21 October 1971, 10.30 a.m.–1.45 p.m., NSA, Electronic Briefing Book No. 70, Doc. 11, p. 5

  CHAPTER 5: MEETING WITH MAO

  1 Li Zhisui, pp. 542–3, 547

  2 Ibid., pp. 551-2, 553-8

  3 Ibid., pp. 561–3

  4 Ibid., p. 563; USOH, Supplement, Lord

  5 Garver, Foreign Relations, p. 9

  6 Luo, p. 155

  7 Schram, Political Thought, p. 256

  8 Hunt, Genesis, ch. 1, for a discussion of this point

  9 WHY, p. 1057; USOH, Supplement, Lord

  10 Li Zhisui, p. 564; Haldeman, Diaries, p. 414

  11 Kraft, p. 20

  12 Li Zhisui, pp. 78–9; Chang and Halliday, p. 345

  13 WHY, p. 1058

  14 USOH, Supplement, Lord

  15 WHY, p. 1059; RN, p. 560; Burr, ed., Kissinger Transcripts, pp. 59, 60; WHY, pp. 1063‒4

  16 Burr, ed., Kissinger Transcripts, pp. 65, 62, 61; Teng and Fairbank, p. 19; Kissinger

  17 Burr, ed., Kissinger Transcripts, pp. 61, 62, 60, 63

  18 Ibid., pp. 59, 60

  19 Li Zhisui, p. 565

  20 Burr, ed., Kissinger Transcripts, p. 64

  21 Ibid., pp. 64, 65

  22 Ibid., p. 65; Niksong dangnian fanghua xianwei renzhi de neimu

  23 Li Zhisui, p. 565; Heath, p. 495

  24 Haldeman, Diaries, p. 414; USOH, Supplement, Lord; USOH, Freeman; WHY, p. 1057

  25 RN, p. 561; Safire, p. 411; WHY, pp. 1058, 1059; author interview with Kissinger; USOH, Supplement, Lord

  26 Strober and Strober, p. 136; WHY, p. 1061; Kalb, p. 270

  CHAPTER 6: MAO TSE-TUNG

  1 Burr, ed., Kissinger Transcripts, p. 65; Ambrose, Nixon: Triumph, p. 454

  2 See, for example, Ambrose, Nixon: Triumph, p. 409; Li Zhisui, pp. 478–9

  3 Short, Mao, pp. 60–1; Mao Zedong on Diplomacy, pp. 419–20

  4 Teiwes, p. 1

  5 Schram, Mao Tse-tung, p. 29

  6 Short, Mao, p. 33

  7 Ibid., pp. 26-7, 33-4, 29

  8 Chang and Halliday, p. 6

  9 Short, Mao, p. 37

  10 Ibid., pp. 37, 55, 66; Schram, Mao Tse-tung, p. 25

  11 Short, Mao, p. 57

  12 Schram, Political Thought, p. 143

  13 Ibid., p. 94

  14 Chang and Halliday, p. 269; Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament (1974), p. 249

  15 Short, Mao, p. 60

  16 Ibid., p. 102

  17 Chang and Halliday, p. 18

  18 Ibid., pp. 24–5

  19 Ibid., pp. 144, 158-60

  20 Short, Mao, pp. 382, 395; Chang and Halliday, p. 279; Short, Mao, p. 396

  21 Smedley, p. 170

  22 Chang and Halliday, p. 632; Li Zhisui, pp. 120–1; Short, Mao, p. 434; Jin, p. 51; Quan, p. 43; Ji, p. 14

  23 Ross, ‘From Lin Biao to Deng Xiaoping’, p. 272; Chang and Halliday, p. 409

  24 Short, Mao, p. 226; Chang and Halliday, pp. 83–91

  25 Chang and Halliday, p. 346; Li Zhisui, pp. 363–4

  26 Hunt, Genesis, p. 7; Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament (1974), p. 252; Short, Mao, p. 70

  27 Teiwes, p. 75; Fang and Fang, pp. 123–4; Jin, p. 74

  28 Quan, pp. 44, 45–7; Li Zhisui, pp. 120–1; Chang and Halliday, p. 454; Schoenhals, p. 96

  29 Short, Mao, p. 79; Chang and Halliday, p. 432n.

  30 Schram, Political Thought, pp. 182, 253

  31 Luo, p. 214

  32 Li Zhisui, pp. 126, 107; Quan, pp. 90-2, 97, 99, 113, 115

  33 Quan, p. 29; Li Zhiusi, p. 99; Quan, p. 111

  34 Short, Mao, p. 586; Quan, p. 153; Jin, p. 206; Li Zhisui, pp. 509–10, 560

  35 Short, Mao, pp. 149, 298, 403, 422; Li Zhisui, pp. 109-10, 233, 369, 443

  36 Author interview with Zhang Hanzhi

  37 Author interview with John Fraser; Holdridge, p. 84; Kraft, p. 22; Osborne, p. 25

  CHAPTER 7: THE LONG FREEZE

  1 Memorandum of Conversation, 21 February 1972, NSA, Record of Historic

  Richard Nixon–Chou En-lai Talks in February 1972 Now Declassified, pp. 4, 2, 6, 3, 5

  2 WHY, p. 1070

  3 Memorandum of Conversation, 21 February 1972, NSA, Record of Historic Richard Nixon–Chou En-lai Talks in February 1972 Now Declassified, pp. 5, 9, 6, 4

  4 He Di, pp. 145, 155

  5 Carter, p. 40

  6 Hunt, Genesis, p. 168; Friedman, pp. 59–60

  7 He Di, p. 147

  8 Mao Zedong on Diplomacy, pp. 46–7

  9 Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, ch. 2 passim; Mao Zedong on Diplomacy, pp. 73, 85

  10 Mao Zedong on Diplomacy, p. 88; Garver, Foreign Relations, p. 8

  11 Mao Zedong on Diplomacy, pp. 81, 70

  12 Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, p. 40; Xu, p. 180; Lowe, p. 111

  13 Chang, pp. 50–9; USOH, Holloway

  14 Chang, pp. 67, 68

  15 Ibid., p. 76

  16 USOH, Kreisberg

  17 USOH, Lutkins

  18 USOH, Kreisberg

  19 USOH, Green; USOH, Johnson

  20 USOH, Levin

  21 Zhai, Dragon, the Lion and the Eagle, pp. 7–8, 11; Shambaugh, p. 6

  22 Arkush and Lee, pp. 254, 246ff

  23 USOH, Thayer; see also USOH, Lacey; USOH, Lutkins; USOH, Johnson

  24 USOH, Lutkins; USOH, Clough; USOH, Holdridge

  25 He Di, p. 151

  26 USOH, Clough; USOH, Supplement, David Fischer

  27 USOH, Osborn; USOH, Holdridge; Luo, p. 162

  28 USOH, Supplement, David Fischer

  CHAPTER 8: BREAKING THE PATTERN

  1 Memorandum of Conversation, 21 February 1972, NSA, Record of Historic Richard Nixon–Chou En-lai Talks in February 1972 Now Declassified, p. 7

  2 Garver, Foreign Relations, p. 155 and n. 28; Foot, ‘Redefinitions’, pp. 264–5

  3 Shao, pp. 195–6

  4 USOH, Grant

  5 Cohen, pp. 190–1

  6 USOH, Holdridge

  7 Barnouin and Yu, p. 47

  8 Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, pp. 221–9; Garver, Foreign Relations, pp. 291–2; Mao Zedong on Diplomacy, pp. 425, 426

  9 Yan and Gao, p. 74; Barnouin and Yu, pp. 66–9; Brady, pp. 163–9

  10 USOH, Green, ch. V, n.p.

  11 Chen and Wilson, ‘All Under the Heaven’, pp. 164, 163

  12 RN, p. 353; Haldeman, Diaries, p. 519

  13 Haldeman, DVD, 13 May, 1 July 1971

  14 Haldeman, Diaries, p. 73

  15 FRUS, Foundations, p. 110

  16 Aitken, p. 244; Haldeman, Diaries, p. 108

  17 Ford Library, Lord; FRUS, Foundations, p. 151

  18 FRUS, Foundations, p. 154

  19 Ibid., pp. 56–7, 122; WHY, pp. 129–30

  20 WHY, p. 192; Kissinger, Years of Upheaval, p. 70

  21 FRUS, Foundations, p. 154; WHY, pp. 164, 712, 763–70

  CHAPTER 9: THE POLAR BEAR

  1 Barnouin and Yu, pp. 108–9

  2 USOH, Freeman

  3 Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers (1970), p. 466; Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament (1974), p. 245; Leys, Chinese Shadows p. 181

  4 Short, Mao, p. 421

  5 Goncharov, Lewis and Xue, p. 8; Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers (1970), p. 462


  6 Goncharov, Lewis and Xue, pp. 79–80

  7 Ibid., pp. 85–93; Short, Mao, p. 424

  8 Goncharov, Lewis and Xue, pp. 127, 107–9

  9 Zhihua, pp. 44–68; Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, pp. 58, 58–61

  10 Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament (1974), p. 249

  11 Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, pp. 64–8; Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament (1974), p. 250; Strong and Keyssar, pp. 503–4

  12 Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, pp. 77–8; Yang Kuisong, pp. 18–19

  13 Li Zhisui, p. 270; Share, p. 9; Taubman, p. 392

  14 Schram, Mao, p. 291; Taubman, p. 341

  15 Hsüeh and North, p. 22; Luo, p. 167; Chang and Halliday p. 505

  16 ‘Conversation between Mao Zedong and E. F. Hill’ in Mao Zedong on Diplomacy, p. 424; Chen and Wilson, ‘All Under the Heaven’ pp. 159, 157–61; Yang Kuisong, pp. 36–7

  17 Chang and Halliday, pp. 503–4; Naughton, pp. 351–86

  18 Lilley p. 146; USOH, Supplement, David Dean

  19 Barnouin and Yu, p. 86

  20 Garver, Foreign Relations, pp. 304–5

  21 Ostermann, p. 186

  22 Goldstein, p. 987 n. 9; Ostermann, p. 187; Yang Kuisong, p. 24

  23 Goldstein, pp. 992–4, 992 n. 40, 994

  24 Goldstein, p. 987; Barnouin and Yu, p. 89; Chang and Halliday, p. 570; Yang Kuisong, p. 27; USOH, Holdridge; Ma Jisen, p. 334; NIE 11/13–69: The USSR and China, p. 4, in National Intelligence Council, Tracking the Dragon

  25 Goldstein, passim; Yang Kuisong, pp. 21, 30

  26 Ostermann, pp. 187–8; Schaller, ‘Détente’, p. 368; Yang Kuisong, p. 32; Chang and Halliday, pp. 570–1; Garver, China’s Decision, pp. 57, 58

  27 Zhang Baijia, pp. 67–8; Whiting, p. 336; Yang Kuisong, p. 34; Wishnick, Mending Fences, p. 35; Hoff, p. 197; Whiting, p. 226

  28 WHY, p. 184

  29 Yang Kuisong, pp. 35, 35–6

  30 Ibid., p. 36; Barnouin and Yu, p. 91

  31 Wishnick, ‘In the Region and in the Center’, p. 198; Yang Kuisong, pp. 37–9; Soviet Report on 11 September 1969 Kosygin–Zhou Meeting, CWHIP Bulletin 6–7, pp. 191–3; Luo, pp. 273–4

  32 Yang Kuisong, p. 40; Soviet Report on 11 September 1969 Kosygin–Zhou Meeting, CWHIP Bulletin 6–7, p. 193; WHY, p. 185; Yang Kuisong, p. 39; Tyler, p. 77; Pollock, pp. 244–71

  33 Yang Kuisong, p. 40

  34 Chang and Halliday, p. 572; Yang Kuisong, pp. 40–1, 47–8; Ma Jisen, pp. 242–3; author interviews

  35 Hsüeh and North, p. 25; Ma Jisen, p. 294

  36 Luo, pp. 254–6

  37 Zhang Baijia, p. 69; Luo, pp. 162, 166

  38 Luo, pp. 272–3

  39 Chen and Wilson, ‘All Under the Heaven’, pp. 166–8

  40 Ibid., pp. 170, 171; Ma Jisen, p. 301

  41 Zhang Baijia, p. 71; Yang Kuisong, p. 43

  42 Li Zhisui, p. 514; WHY, p. 182; Luo, p. 275

  CHAPTER 10: THE BANQUET

  1 USOH, Supplement, Lord

  2 Xiong, ‘Jiang Qing’, p. 61

  3 Author interview with John Burns; Cronkite, p. 322; NPM, Dwight Chapin Files, Box 28, Folder Memoranda to Official/Unofficial Parties

  4 USOH, Freeman

  5 Mancall, p. 24; Financial Times, 7/8 May 2005

  6 Holdridge, p. 79; Walker, pp. 237, 409–10

  7 Walker, p. 229; Chen and Hong, pp. 310–11; WHY, p. 1069; Haig, p. 259

  8 NPM, Dwight Chapin Files, Box 28, Folder Memoranda to Official/ Unofficial Parties; Haldeman, Diaries, p. 415; Holdridge, pp. 86–7

  9 Author interview with John Burns; Haldeman, Diaries, p. 59; Garment, p. 111

  10 Ehrlichman, pp. 263–4, 273‒4; Greenberg, p. 128; Chapin interview, PCC transcripts, roll 46, p. 5

  11 Greenberg, pp. 137, 146, 155; Ehrlichman, pp. 264–9

  12 Memorandum of Conversation, 11 July 1971, 10.35 a.m.-11.55 a.m., NSA, Electronic Briefing Book No. 66, Doc. 38, p. 5; Greenberg, p. 276; Frankel, p. 349; Memorandum for Henry A. Kissinger, 6 August 1971, ‘Conversations with Chou En-lai, 10 July afternoon sessions’, NSA, Electronic Briefing Book No. 66, Doc. 35, pp. 18–19; Rather, Camera Never Blinks, p. 230

  13 Wen, p. 1735

  14 Holdridge, p. 70; author interview with Li Qin

  15 Memorandum of Conversation, 23 October 1971, 9.05 p.m.–10.05 p.m., NSA Electronic Briefing Book No. 70 Doc. 14, p. 8; Memorandum of Meeting, 11.45 p.m., 7 January 1972, NSA Electronic Briefing Book No. 70, Doc. 25, p. 4; Haig, pp. 262–3

  16 Walker, pp. 308; Halstead, p. 6, 21, 246

  17 Halstead, p. 4

  18 Halstead, p. 5

  19 Thomas, Dateline, p. 139; Thomas, Front Row, p. 187; Kraft, p. 9

  20 Thomas, Dateline, pp. 140–1; Walker, p. 84

  21 Author interview with Yu Jiafu; Halstead, pp. 6–7

  22 Hevia, p. 117 and ch. 5 passim

  23 Text available at The American Presidency Project; Holdridge, p. 87

  24 USOH, Freeman

  25 Text available at The American Presidency Project

  26 Haldeman, Diaries, pp. 416, 415

  27 Buckley, p. 87; quoted in Hersh, p. 495

  28 Holdridge, p. 87; author interview with John Burns

  29 Haldeman, Diaries, pp. 415–16

  CHAPTER 11: OPENING MOVES

  1 WHY, p. 187

  2 See Haig interview, Nixon’s China Game, PBS website

  3 Kissinger interview, PCC transcripts 1/V, p. 2; WHY, pp. 189–90

  4 USOH, Nichols

  5 Ibid.

  6 USOH, Holdridge

  7 Secret Cable 427, 18 February 1969, NSA, China and the US, CH00055

  8 FRUS, Foundations, p. 79

  9 Department of State, Next Steps in China Policy, 6 October 1971, NSA China and the US, CH00079; Walters, p. 526; Holdridge, p, 32; Aijazuddin, p. 3; Secret Cable 2547, 12 August 1969, NSA, China and the US, CH00075; Secret Cable 2618, 18 August 1969, NSA China and the US, CH00077

  10 National Security Study Memorandum, NSSM 14, 5 February 1969, NSA, China and the US, CH00043; WHY, p. 169; Hoff, pp. 196–7; Ma Jisen, p. 298

  11 Mann, p. 22; Foot, ‘Redefinitions’, pp. 277–8, 280

  12 Confidential Cable 1720, 9 June 1969, NSA, China and the US, CH00070; Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, p. 245; Mann, p. 62; Zhang Baijia, p. 68; Barnouin and Yu, pp. 99, 99–100

  13 USOH, Supplement, Buche

  14 Author interview with John Fraser; Robert Edmonds; author interview with Chen Weiming

  15 USOH, Jenkins; Ma Jisen, p. 326

  16 Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, p. 250; WHY, p. 190; RN, p. 545

  17 Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, pp. 250–2; Secret Memorandum of Conversation, 21 February 1970, NSA, China and the US, CH00143

  18 Mann, p. 24; Holdridge, p. 37; WHY, pp. 684–5, 692; Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, p. 252

  19 Safire, pp. 206–7; RN, p. 546

  20 Walters, pp. 526–7

  21 Ibid., pp. 534-8, 529-30

  22 Aijazzudin, p. 30; Ma Jisen, pp. 327–8; WHY, pp. 701–2; Mao Zedong on Diplomacy, p. 450; see, for example, Aijazuddin, pp. 58–9

  23 Mao Zedong on Diplomacy, pp. 449–50; Holdridge, p. 41; WHY, pp. 702–3; RN, p. 547

  24 Aijazuddin, pp. 42–3

  25 WHY, pp. 701–2; RN, pp. 549–50; Aijazuddin, pp. 52–3; Memorandum of Conversation, nJuly 1971, 10.35 a.m.–11.55 a.m., NSA, Electronic Briefing Book No. 66, Doc. 38, p. 3; WHY, p. 736; Isaacson, pp. 338–9

  26 RN, p. 548; WHY, pp. 704–5

  27 Ma Jisen, pp. 328–9; Chen and Lin , pp. 250–5; Ma Jisen, p. 329

  28 USOH, Levin; Boggan interview, PCC transcripts, i/V, p. 1; Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, p. 260

  29 Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, p. 261; Zhang Baijia, p. 73

  30 Ma Jisen, p. 230; USOH, Cunningham; Brown interview, PCC transcripts, 1 /V, p. 5

  31 Boggan interview, PCC transcripts, i/V, pp. 18�
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  32 Barnouin and Yu, pp. 103–4; WHY, p. 710

  33 Globe and Mail, 15 April 1971

  34 Ibid.; Boggan interview, PCC transcripts, i/V, pp. 18—20; Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, p. 262

  35 WHY, p. 710; copy in NSA, Electronic Briefing Book No. 66, Doc. 15, Doc. 19

  36 RN, p. 549; Haldeman, Diaries, p. 275; WHY, p. 721

  37 WHY, pp. 716–17

  38 Aijazuddin, pp. 58–9; Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, p. 263 n. 113; WHY, p. 725

  39 Message for the Government of the People’s Republic of China, 20 May 1971, NSA, Electronic Briefing Book No. 66, Doc. 24; Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, pp. 264–5

  40 WHY, pp. 726–7; Haldeman, Diaries, p. 295; RN, pp. 551–2; Mann, p. 29

  41 RN, p. 552

  CHAPTER 12: THE SECRET VISIT

  1 RN, p. 552

  2 Aijazuddin, p. 67; RN, pp. 550; Isaacson, pp. 339—40; Haldeman, Diaries, p. 282; WHY, pp. 715—17; telecon The President/Mr Kissinger, 8.18 p.m., 27 April 1971, NSA, Electronic Briefing Book No. 66, Doc. 18

  3 RN, p. 550; WHY, pp. 717, 734

  4 USOH, Supplement, Farland; WHY, p. 738; Kissinger interview, PCC transcripts, i/V, p. 18

  5 Hilaly to Kissinger, 19 June 1971, NSA, Electronic Briefing Book No. 66, Doc. 29; Aijazuddin, pp. 102—5; USOH, Supplement, Farland

  6 Zhang Baijia, pp. 74—5; Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War, pp. 262—5

  7 NPM, NSC Files, For the President’s Files (Winston Lord) China/Vietnam Negotiations, Box 850, Folder 3, pp. 1—5

  8 Memorandum for the President’s Files, 1 July 1971, NSA, Electronic Briefing Book No. 66, Doc. 33; WHY, pp. 735—6

  9 WHY, pp. 728—9; Hersh, pp. 466—76

  10 Aijazuddin, p. 81 n. 25

  11 WHY, p. 725; Brown interview, PCC transcripts, i/V, p. 12; Hanhimäki, pp. 116—20, 124; Bundy, p. 233

  12 WHY, p. 729; Holdridge, p. 52

  13 Author interview with Gordon Barass; USOH, Supplement, Lord

  14 Wicker, One of Us, pp. 594—5; WHY, p. 749

  15 Holdridge, p. 55; USOH, Supplement, Lord; WHY, p. 753

  16 Haldeman, Diaries, pp. 289, 316

  17 USOH, Holdridge; Chen and Lin, p. 266

  18 Author interview with Zhang Hanzhi

  19 Memorandum of Conversation, 9 July 1971, Afternoon and Evening, NSA, Electronic Briefing Book No. 66, Doc. 34

  20 Ibid, p. 6

  21 Memorandum of Conversation, 10 July 1971, Afternoon, NSA, Electronic Briefing Book No. 66, Doc. 35, p. 2

 

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