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MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION
- Place:
- Great Hall of the People, Peking
- Time & Date:
- Thursday, November 28, 1974 - 4:00 - 6:15 pm
- Participants:
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- Chinese:
- Teng Hsiao-ping, Vice Premier
- American:
- The Secretary
- Mr. Rumsfeld, Assistant to the President
- Ambassador Bush, Chief of the Liaison Office
- Mr. Philip Habib, Assistant Secretary for East Asian Affairs
- Mr. Winston Lord, Director, Policy Planning Staff
- Miss Christine Vick, Secretary's office (notetaker)
- Teng:
- Have you had a good rest this morning?
- Kissinger:
- It was kind of the Foreign Minister to go with us to the Temple. Our Ambassador told me what is going on in China. Then I showed Mr. Rumsfeld the Forbidden City and the German Ambassador who is an old friend, called on my to tell me what is going on in China too.
- Teng:
- What do the Germans think is going on in China?
- Kissinger:
- Frankly, he wanted to hear from me what is going on.
- Teng:
- You can tell him we are digging tunnels here.
- Kissinger:
- And storing grain.
- Teng:
- Right. Three sentences -- dig tunnels deep, store grain everywhere, and never seek hegemony. There are the three things we are to note.
- Kissinger:
- As Chairman Mao said last year.
