Headline of the week, from the Washington Post: “U.S. Strives to Understand Moslems.”
Note this, and remember it. At the White House dinner honoring Teng, President Carter in his toast celebrated “the newly established diplomatic relations between the Governments of the United States and the People’s Republic of China.” Normal diplomatic usage. In his toast, however, Teng nowhere referred to the legitimate government of this country. He drank to “the health” of the President, and to “the great American people,” etc. Teng is supposed to be a pragmatist, but this language represents standard Communist usage. From a Communist perspective, the present U.S. Government is illegitimate, and transitory. At the White House, Teng was orthodox.
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