Teng: So then we can later on go into specific dates, because we don't have to settle now.
Kissinger: We don't have to settle now. What is your idea? Should we announce the invitation and acceptance at the end of my visit?
Teng: What would you think?
Kissinger: I think it's a good idea. We should have a communique at the end of my visit -- which we would perhaps publish Saturday or Sunday -- in which we should announce this, yes.
Teng: So then we will consider the announcement and communique and discuss it with you later.
Kissinger: I think there is an advantage to relating it to my visit here. When it should be published -- Saturday or Monday -- we are open-minded. Or later even.
Teng: So we will leave it to the Foreign Minister to work out the wording of the announcement with you.
Kissinger: Must I work it out with him? We spent a week one time. He is a very tough negotiator. It will be a great pleasure.
Teng: You are both philosophers.
Ch'iao: But we two must quarrel each time we meet because we belong to two different schools of philosophy.
Kissinger: That is true. But they are related.
Ch'iao: Both linked and related.
Kissinger: Like our relationship.
Teng: But you don't have to go into such length at these meetings. Just have some more mao tai. [Laughter]
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