Kissinger: This is what we did in July, 1971.
Ch'iao Kuan-hua: So we made up a few words. It took me a whole day to compose three sentences! It shows that our effectiveness is very low. But because this morning you insisted I make a try, I could only do so.
So the three items we will be thinking of putting into the announcement would be three main thoughts:
The Secretary of State visited certain places from when to when -- the two sides had pleasant talks. The formal wording is:
"Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, U. S. Secretary of State and Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, visited the People's Republic of China from November 25 through November 29, 1974. The Chinese and U.S. sides held friendly and useful talks. Knowing of the expressed desire of President Gerald R. Ford to visit China, the Government of the People's Republic of China has extended an invitation to President Ford to visit China in 1975. President Ford has accepted this invitation with pleasure."
Kissinger: At any rate.... well, for one thing, I don't know whether President Ford had expressed a desire that you could know of to visit the People's Republic of China.
Ch'iao Kuan-hua: Through you.
Kissinger: I think, frankly, we should use a frankly different formulation from the 1971 communique. This quite candidly is my view on the subject. I have two suggestions. I have no great.... One is -- and I have to do it in light of our opinion -- to say only that in two previous visits we accomplished two pages on the talks and to deal with these four days with six or seven words is going to be noticed. I think we should at least say, "and reaffirmed the principles of the previous communiques" or something like this. Now, as far as the invitation is concerned.... this point can be made with an additional sentence. It does not require a paragraph. With respect to the invitation, I think it would be best to relate it to the statement in our communique last year of the desirability of frequent exchanges at authoritative levels. And say, "in the light of the decisions in the year 1973 of the desirability of frequency of exchanges, the Government has extended an invitation to President Ford." Those are my two suggestions except to express protest for my associates whose names are not being mentioned. But that is a question of internal policy.
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