MEMORANDUM
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
PARTICIPANTS:
Ch'iao Kuan-hua, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Wang Hai-jung, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
Lin Ping, Director, Department of American and Oceanic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
T'ang Wen-sheng, Deputy Director, Department of American and Oceanic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Notetaker
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Secretary of State and Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Donald Rumsfeld, Assistant to the President
Amb. George Bush, Chief, USLO Peking
Winston Lord, Director, Policy Planning Staff
Philip C. Habib, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Lora D. Simkus, Notetaker
PLACE:
Meeting Room
Villa 18, Guest House, Peking
DATE AND TIME:
Thursday, November 28, 1974
9:45 - 11:15 p.m.
SUBJECT:
Drafting of Communique of Visit
Kissinger: You are outnumbered tonight.
Ch'iao Kuan-hua: But we have 800 million.
Kissinger: But if they are not here, you are outnumbered.
Ch'iao Kuan-hua: This morning I told you about our basic thinking. And our thinking is to try our best to avoid superfluous words and to inquire and to put main things in the most prominent place. Of course, our assessment of these talks is they have been very beneficial. This wide range of exchange of views has been very good. That is one thing. And, of course, the important substantial part of what you will want to say is that both sides have decided that your President will visit China.
TOP SECRET/NODIS/XGDS
CLASSIFIED BY HENRY A. KISSINGER
EXEMPT FROM GENERAL DECLASSIFICATION
SCHEDULE OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 11652
EXEMPTION CATEGORY 5 (b) (1,3)
AUTOMATICALLY DECLASSIFIED ON imp. to det.
