In 1954, 10 years ago, the British, who had never seen a panda, gave it to five elk in China.
Then he said:
We’re all decent people, and now you’ve got our rare animal moose. Do you have to consider giving us some rare animals, like pandas?
The Chinese side immediately stated:
Our traditional Chinese culture has come and gone, and it will not be at your expense.
And then turned around and gave it back to the British two giants.
In any case, the British did not think that the first one would open up the “hidden money” and then gave it to China’s moose in succession.
And then I got it from the smileful Chinese again… two spasms and two acupunctures.
In the context of the Cold War of the last century, “panda diplomacy” once became a sign of external observation of China’s foreign policy.
And behind “panda diplomacy” is a strange Chinese diplomatic history.
One.
On the evening of 28 October 1972, in the light of the increasingly bleak sky, a Chinese civil aviation jet was flying to Tokyo with a small rain.
The aircraft had just entered Japanese airspace, and the radar alerts in the civil aviation cockpit had suddenly started to blink, and the pilot had been surprised to discover that four small light spots on the radar were approaching at speed.
And in the future and in response, four F-4EJs had split the fog, ran away from the passenger and quickly changed their formations and caught the civilian aircraft in the middle.
The crashing civil aviation pilots have been rushing to open their public communications and have yet to report their identity.
We’re the Japanese Air Self Defense Forces!
I’ve been ordered to escort the panda.
Military aircraft escorts are the only way to benefit from a visit by the Head of State.
The frenzy of the civil aviation pilots, while expressing their gratitude for this super-specified welcoming ceremony, wondered whether the fanatic panda lovers had been too excited to hear the wrong orders.
After all, there is no precedent in international diplomatic history for military aircraft to escort animals.
But by 7:00 p.m., after the plane landed at Haneda Airport in Japan, civil aviation pilots were convinced that the fighter pilots had never been wrong in their orders.
More than 300 journalists are still waiting, at least, because from the window of the plane, the plumes on both sides of the runway are full of flashlights.
You know, at the opening of the Sapporo Winter Olympics in Japan six months ago, there were no more than 3000 media personnel on the scene.
As far as rehearsals are concerned, the two pandas, “Kangkang” and “Lanland”, from a long distance from China, are already hotter than the Sapporo Winter Olympics in Japan.
At 8:00 p.m., after creating the fastest customs and quarantine process in Japan’s customs history, the two Chinese “Panda Diplomatic Ambassadors” finally officially landed on Japanese soil.
The civilian pilot then looked blindly at everyone’s face with their retarded smiles and jumped at the panda.
The voice of the “Cavay” is loud, and sometimes people in strange costumes try to break through the walls of hundreds of policemen and make close contact with pandas.
Where are the Japanese who wrote in the diplomatic manual before leaving?
Since you entered Japan, you’ve seen a lot of passionate psychos!
But what made this poor civilian pilot even more grumpy is still behind him.
On 4 November 1972, a large pair of pandas, presented to Japanese nationals by the Chinese people, was held in Hatoyama Park, Tokyo.
The Japanese officials who attended the ceremony, above the “provincial ministerial level” alone, included the Chief Cabinet Secretary, Second Class, Free Democrats Officer Longbashimoto, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Akiko Aoki, and Tokyo, over 200 people.
A hundred and a half-year-old prime minister with the same demented smile on his face, squeezing around in front of a panda without fear, once squeezing the Asano Zoo of the Upper Wilder Zoo outside the crowd, until the ceremony began to see the headmaster being displaced…
It’ll be even more exaggerating when the Panda Palace is officially opened.
Since 6 a.m. the previous morning, there had been an all-night queue of “zeal powder” coming from all over the country in front of the Hatono Park gate.
By the time the park was officially opened, the number of queues had exceeded 55,000, extending to the upper field station two kilometres away.
It’s so exciting that only the year of the spring will be a battle.
People lined up in front of Gono Park.
It’s hard to wait for the panda palace to officially open, and of the 55,000 people who spent a day and a night, only 18,000 finally saw the panda that day.
Even the lucky ones, most of them were just a quick glimpse of “teaming all day, watching 10 seconds.”
Even so, the exciting Japanese people are still rushing to the panda house.
In 1973 alone, more than 9.2 million people went into the park, breaking the historical record of the number of visitors to exhibitions in Japan.
Over the next seven years, the Hatono Park Panda Palace received a total of 32 million viewers, equivalent to a quarter of the total population of Japan at that time.
Many Japanese citizens who had no choice to visit pandas were “dry” and even made their own pandas look like pandas, making them the most popular species in a pet store in 1973.
In this zealous atmosphere, even the Japanese national animated cherries in cherries, the little twirling twirling: “It’s a disgrace to be alive, not even a panda. I’m sorry.
Before the two giant pandas, King’s Landing, Japan, the new People’s Republic of China, for most ordinary Japanese, was a stranger to its own “Red Dragon Nation” because of the cold war environment and ideological differences.
As the panda fever spread like wildfires in Japan, the country of the Red Dragon became the country of the panda overnight.
No matter how hard the right-wing media in Japan tries to promote how dirty, brutal, fanatical Japanese are, they still can’t stop a large number of Japanese-Chinese-friendly people from visiting China on a regular basis, conducting various cultural exchanges and “go by” looking at pandas.
On the basis of increasing civil interaction, relations between the two countries developed in a comprehensive manner in the decade or so between 1972 and the early 1980s.
The two sides signed successive agreements on trade, maritime transport, fisheries, aviation, science and technology, as well as the China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship, and Japan began to provide economic assistance for China ‘ s reform, opening up and economic development.
Historically, in the context of the cold war at that time, the “honeymoon time” in China-Japan was amazing.
China-Japan relations over the decade have been totally positive, without any friction, and have been the most friendly period between Japan and Japan since 1931.
Behind this diplomatic legend are two great panda diplomats.
Two.
“Panda Diplomacy” in China’s near-modern diplomatic history, copyrighted by Song Mei-Yu, the Commissioner’s wife.
The First Lady of the Republic, who had never held any official diplomatic post, had been able to influence the Republic of China’s diplomatic decisions for decades in various ways.
In 1941, it was the hardest years of the Chinese war against Japan.
The “Four General Assembly Wars” were all lost in the military battle, and most of the land was lost.
In the political sphere, there has been a resurgence of such surrenders as Wang Qianjiang, who have openly established a traitor regime in Nanjing, and the Chinese nation has almost reached its most dangerous point.
Even worse, the “China-United States Friendship” of America, which was very vocal before the war, remained silently “neutral” on the other side of the Pacific until now, as if it knew nothing about Japan’s invasion of China and was doing business with the Japanese government.
According to the United States Government’s own statistics, Japan imported $290 million in goods from the United States in 1937 alone, of which $168 million represented 54.4 per cent of Japan’s imports of strategic goods in that year.
This includes 5.5 million tons of oil, $2.484 million worth of aircraft, and important materials such as over 150 million yen of machine-beds, which are constantly being shipped to Japan to expand military production.
For China’s true “ally”, only civil society organizations such as the United States Joint Commission for Relief of Chinese Refugees provide limited assistance with medicines, food, etc.
China was once a poor agricultural country, and there was no money to trade with the “silent” Americans like Japan.
With the fall of the south-east wall, the already weak self-building industrial system of the Republic of China has nearly collapsed, not to mention the weapons of fire, and even the most basic work items, such as syringes for injections and duplicates of documents, depend on imports.
In this critical situation, Chiang Kai-shek is in a state of acute illness, and, in addition to his daily “bread and clean water” appeal to the people of the country to save their lives from the war, he can only keep pushing the wife Song Mei, who calls herself “The Way Out” abroad, to find a way to get some help.
In September 1941, after being pushed so hard by Chiang Kai-shek, Song Mei-suk finally showed up and told Chiang Kai-shek: “In three words, the Americans willingly spend 800 million dollars for me!” I’m sorry.
First sentence: I listened to the radio yesterday and heard that the only big panda you have on American soil is dead.
Second sentence: In order to thank the United States Joint Commission for the Relief of Chinese Refugees for its assistance to the Chinese civil-military resistance, we would like to give you two large pandas.
Third sentence: As long as the American people are willing to continue to support the Chinese civil-military struggle, we are willing to give you more pandas!
After three sentences, Chiang Kai-shek, the first man, questioned.
First of all, the countries of Europe and the United States did not have large pandas, all of which came from poaching and smuggling in China.
In particular, the American panda, “Pandora”, who died, was actually an American girl named Ruth Hacknas who was illegally captured in China in 1937 and then bribed customs officials to bring back to the United States with an export permit for “dog one”.
Take the first living panda to Ruth Harklis in America.
When the giant panda, the first living panda to appear outside China, was displayed at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, Chiang Kai-shek, who was deeply “demeaning” to his country, had decreed in 1939 that foreigners should be banned from hunting and transporting pandas in China.
As soon as the big panda who was smuggled out of the country died, we were in a hurry to send him another pair of pastes, which was a little overstretched.
Moreover, when Chiang Kai-shek was young, he was the one who walked through the North and drank ink in the East Ocean. He only heard that there were beautiful women who fell into the country, and he never heard that strange animals could make people go crazy.
Don’t send the big panda.
I can’t be ashamed of my hair anymore.
In the face of the doubt, Song Mei-Yu began to quote: “Panda Diplomacy” was not the first of our kind, but it was the precedent of the Great Tang that was 1,300 years ago.
In 685 A.D., in the list of gifts given by the ruling martial artsman to Japanese messengers visiting Tang, there was a record of “two bears and 70 bear skins”.
The old “white bear” is the big panda!
We’re tired, we’re too tired to send some pandas to the powerful.
Diplomacy, as long as it achieves its ultimate purpose, is not too stylish.
In an effort to enhance the effect of persuasion, Song Mei-suk deliberately pulled Chiang Kai-shek to the air and translated to Chiang Kai-shek, word for word, the American people went to the zoo to send news of their departure and remembrance of “Pandora”.
In front of their own goddess, the man’s questioning always falls apart in a moment.
This strange animal is truly felt in the news in the United States.
The protection of the country’s rare animals requires at least a nation to speak of protection, and if the panda can exchange solid US aid to keep the front line from bleeding, what will my reputation be?
On September 15, 1941, the Government of the Republic of China, in the name of Mrs. Chiang Kai-shek, Mrs. Song Mei and Mrs. Sang-hee, stated to the United States Joint Commission for Relief for Chinese Refugees:
“The medicines and other substances given by the United States of America are available every day, every day and every night. The Chinese side, for its part, does not deserve the help of the children of the wounded and the wounded … China, while expressing its gratitude for this friendship, has given the newly acquired panda to each other and hopes that American friends will continue to assist. I’m sorry.
The U.S. government, having heard that China is going to give pandas to them, did show great excitement by sending the president of the American Society of Animalists to Chongqing on September 23.
It’s “new” and it’s “new.”
Large pandas were killed indiscriminately by foreign poachers for more than a hundred years, even when they became very rare, and the Government of the People’s Republic specially organized a hunting team that managed to capture two large pandas in the Himalayas at the end of October.
On November 14th, the Song Mei-Yi and Song Xiao-Yu sisters specially escorted pandas from Hong Kong via Manila and Hawaii until December 30, when they arrived in New York, as a special Christmas present to the American people.
It is worth mentioning that ships carrying large pandas passed through Hawaii on their shoulders with Japanese warships that attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States.
This coincidence, which was rebuffed by the speech given by Song Mei-Yu in the United States, was immediately resonating with the American public:
Also in East Asia, when the Chinese brought us pandas, the Japanese sent us bombs.
Who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy?
So the applause, the flowers and the tears, and Song’s panda diplomacy seems to have been a great success in America.
But until after the victory of the Japanese War, those who were interested in making serious economic calculations found that the total US foreign aid during World War II had reached $50.6 billion, of which the United Kingdom had 60 per cent, the Soviet Union had 22 per cent, and China, with two pandas and Chiang, with only 1.6 per cent.
Justice is not in the heart of the world community, where the weak and the weak are the ones who care about power.
Song Mei-Yu can only speak of innocence when two big pandas and a few speeches are used to make Americans feel good and generous.
In addition to the popular version of “panda diplomacy” that has made Song’s American sister famous, it has finally become an upgraded version of the Queen of Mercy’s “Message of China, Convergence of the Nation.”
3
Since the establishment of the People ‘ s Republic of China, the People ‘ s Republic of China has always shown great caution in its diplomatic activities through rare animals, especially pandas, in the light of the experience of Song Mei ‘ s predecessor.
A legendary panda “Ming” was used in Great Britain in World War II, and the old man, who was under constant, night-to-day German Air Force fire, had to eat and drink, had nothing to do with his heart, and had shown a great deal to keep a calm nobility in British distress, almost in the minds of the people of London.
Churchill publicly called on the radio at the worst of the bombings in London: a panda can survive, and what can be done for our brave British?
So, when Ming passed away in the end of World War II, the British, as a “Western country” – while keeping their mouths shut against the new China – were looking forward to getting a panda back through diplomacy.
By 1954, the British, who had not seen the pandas for 10 years, had finally failed, using a very “British” obnoxious approach: in spite of the fact that they had given them to five elk in China.
Now that you’ve received our rare animal moose, do you have to consider giving us some rare animals, like pandas?
The Chinese side immediately indicated that our traditional Chinese culture has come and gone, and will not be wronged.
And then turned around and gave it back to the British two giants.
In any case, the British did not think that the first one would open up the “hidden money” and then gave it to China’s moose in succession.
And then I got it from the smileful Chinese again… two spasms and two acupunctures.
As we were preparing to send another deer for the fourth time, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China introduced in 1959 the Regulation on the Export of our Precious Animals, which lists more than 40 species of rare animals.
The British were silent in the face of a dense rare animal catalogue.
I’m not so thick as to be ready to deliver 40 mooses.
The idea of obtaining a large panda from a blind box was abandoned.
Not soft, just hard.
After helping China to build a complete system of first-line urban Zoos, the old Soviets have repeatedly asked China to exchange its rare animals, such as pandas, Chinese tigers, gold monkeys, and other rare animals for Soviets, such as white bears, brown bears, and snow leopards.
But this isn’t.
All requests for exchange have been euphemistically rejected by China on the grounds that there are no suitable animals to choose.
Until September 1956, the “diplomatic one-sided” became a real need for the new China to survive and develop, as the global cold war atmosphere became stronger.
At a time when the zoos of socialist countries, influenced by the natural doctrine of Micholin, are suffering from “blind box fanaticism” like their older brothers, trying to “sort up” the iconic animals of all continents.
Against this background, giving each other time to animals that represent the country’s geographical characteristics is proof of the “satisfaction” of relations between socialist countries, and not only have the Soviet Union repeatedly complained that “you, China, are now dealing with older brothers, or better than the Nationalist Party is doing with the father of the United States”, but many socialist countries have turned their backs after asking for the exchange of pandas.
Under real pressure, in September 1956, China decided to continue “panda diplomacy” and established three basic guidelines:
1. Chinese rare animals shall be exchanged and not given;
ii. The exchange requirement for the “socialist brother country” can be the highest level of panda, but it can only be used for the “strength war” that could have a significant impact on diplomacy;
iii. The exchange requirement for the “capitalist nation” can only be for animals given abroad, and then for lower animals, but to ensure that the overall value of the animals is roughly equal.
On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Russian Revolution in October 1957, China finally acceded to the request of Voloshlov, President of the Supreme Soviet Presidency of the Soviet Union, who visited China, to present to the Soviet Union two large pandas in the form of a “state gift” in the form of “peace” and “sing” in exchange for special animals such as the specks, black swans and velvets of the Soviet Union.
This unexpected surprise made Big Brother so happy that the two pandas came to the opening of the 6th World Youth Festival and asked if they were surprised:
See me panda!
It’s from old Chinese iron!
We have pandas in the Soviet Union!
Following the establishment of the New China, the Soviet Union, in an effort to help China to establish an independent industrial system as soon as possible, began in 1952 to implement a “156 Plan” for the construction of 156 new Chinese industrial projects.
The total amount of aid for the scheme was 10 billion rubles, which accounted for about 7 per cent of GDP in the Soviet Union at the time, and even for the Soviet Union, it was a considerable burden, so by 1956, there were signs of a gradual “breath.”
But now panda BUFF, plus, the big brother would’ve swung his face off the ground, felt it was picked up again, was full of joy, was full of energy, was forced to bite his teeth in 1958 to complete most of the projects in the 156 Plan, and for a few years the new China’s industrial level had crossed from zero to Japan’s level in 1937, reaching the bottom line in Europe before World War II.
It’s a good job.
It was only then that China started to have the guts to use panda tactics in its foreign relations, and in the context of the Cold War, “panda diplomacy” became even a sign of foreign policy.
For example, China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, after having spent a “honeymoon” period against the US-DP, have become tense with the continued cleansing of senior cadres of the “Yan-Aan” in North Korea. China has even once made sharp criticism of some of the practices of the North Korean Labour Party through diplomatic channels, triggering the assumption that the US-Europe “China-DPRK relations have broken down” and South Korea has also begun to move on the Korean-Korean border.
In the face of suspicion, China decisively offered a big move – a panda-for-panda: two pandas, Ling Ling and Samsung, in exchange for 45 species of animals, including Korean leopards, Dan cranes and Zhuang.
Panda out, who fights?
The suspicions about the relations between China and the Democratic People ‘ s Republic of Korea have faded, and the French media have sorely said:
“We don’t believe that there is anything wrong with China, but China gave it to the Korean panda! I’m sorry.
4
It was hard to calm down the little brother of North Korea.
After Brezhnev came to power, he fully inherited the “honourful tradition” of Hrushchev’s fists against Yugoslavia, kicking Hungary, and further developed, beginning with a direct armed invasion of Czechoslovakia and the forced interruption of the “Prague Spring” and then continuing to stare at China’s beards and finger-pointing.
Mr. Guo Dechen said well, you respect me, I respect you; you disrespect me, I respect you; you disrespect me, and I respect you; you disrespect me, and I kill you.
In 1969, armed clashes broke out between the two countries on Pearl Island and Tyrekte.
Although there had been no loss in the battlefield, the Soviet Union was still a little sympathizing with the millions of soldiers on the border.
Under real pressure, American diplomats around the world suddenly found that Chinese diplomats were “emerging” in their own view.
You know, after more than 20 years of diplomatic games, the two then-US diplomats had reached a certain degree of agreement: in order to avoid embarrassment, the diplomatic personnel of the two countries appeared in essentially different contexts in important diplomatic forums.
Even when, by coincidence, the two diplomats met, Chinese diplomats took immediate measures of circumvention, to the point that there had been Chinese diplomats walking ahead, and United States diplomats chasing hundreds of metres behind without a word.
But since November 1969, Chinese diplomats who used to be “unilaterally invisible” to the United States have suddenly stopped avoiding contact with American diplomats.
Between January and March 1970 alone, US-statistical diplomats made more than a hundred direct contacts.
This anomaly did not attract much attention from the United States diplomatic service, but simply submitted a report to the then President of the United States, Nixon, assuming, of course, that “the Chinese aim is to stimulate the Soviets only with the appearance of Chinese-American détente.”
But Nixon was immediately acutely aware that a moment in history seemed to be approaching.
The international situation at the time was that the Soviet Union, not only was “dive” in the socialist family, but it was just as imprudent to beat capitalism, to see the opportunity for the United States to fall into the quagmire of the Vietnam War. In Europe, too, it was the military that was too aggressive, making all NATO countries nervous and afraid to learn Russian the next morning.
In Nixon’s view, it is reasonable and logical that the country’s foreign affairs should always be a matter of mind-setting, and that China, which is no longer a reliable ally in the world, should be able to change its doors to embrace the United States, having experienced the same stress of the Soviet steel flood.
If China can really align itself with the United States as a third party to hold the Soviet Union hostage, it will undoubtedly be an important turn for the United States to gain strategic advantage in the cold war.
In the face of real interests, any “ism” is meaningless.
In October 1970, as the President of the United States, known for his “faceless” history, Nixon took the initiative to cross the “cold war” Iron Curtain, conveying to China, through Pakistan’s President Yahya, who is about to visit China, a friendly message that “the two countries can build closer ties in the future.”
What is unexpected is that the hot face that the United States has come up with has received a cold slap from the new China.
Prime Minister Zhou Enlai, on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, clearly replied that China would not consider establishing direct contact with the United States until the United States had taken the lead in withdrawing its troops from Taiwan, accepted the People’s Republic of China as the sole legitimate Government of China and restored the People’s Republic of China to its rightful seat in the United Nations.
The strong rhetoric and the firmness of the attitude that led Nixon to think that he was the leader of the country that was being held hostage by the Soviets.
Before it was too late, another private channel brought good news to Nixon:
In China, at the 1970 National Day Celebration, American journalist Edgar Snow was specially invited to the Temple of Tiananmen City.
In a subsequent interview, Mao Zedong was even more straightforward in his message to Nixon:
“So long as Nixon wants to come to China, he wants to talk to Nixon. You can talk, you can talk, you can fight, you can fight, you can fight, you can fight, you can travel, you can be president. Anyway, anything.”
Edgar Snowden went to the Temple of Tiananmen.
The rejection did not appear to have been complete.
At almost the same time, China’s leaders sent two seemingly totally contradictory messages to the US, giving Nixon an insinuation about China’s linguistic culture.
In Nixon’s view, the world of adults, without immediate consent, means rejection. But Nixon’s National Security Assistant, Henry Kissinger, has a completely different interpretation of China’s abnormal response.
In his view, everyone is always busy, and if an adult is willing to spare time to respond to you, it has proved to be “meaning” to you.
The resumption of direct contacts between Chinese and American diplomats and the invitation extended by journalists to the President of the United States demonstrate that China’s leaders are in fact willing to ease their ties with the United States, and that, in their view, practical action has already been taken. Next, it is to be seen whether Nixon really wants to ease relations with China.
China’s older leaders were killed in the bloodstorms of the war years. To truly gain their trust, it is useless to be mere talkative.
In a word, they don’t care what you say, but they value what you actually do.
It’s no wonder Nixon couldn’t turn his head.
Since the end of World War II, any country that has received the good will of the United States of America has never been a “go-go-go” since the end of the World War II, and Nixon has never thought of making friends with China, which seems to have no place to go, and has had to pay off the “go-go”!
Despite some irritation, the “constraint but not isolation” of China is the “long-term perspective” that Nixon has advocated since 1968 when he announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States, and that has not been abandoned in a single setback.
It’s a “show” for Na, and it’s a well-known American, turning around and twisting the Taiwan ally: can we use your head to win the military?
The moment you choose to be an ally of America, you should have sacrificed your mind for the good of America!
On the instructions of Nixon, Kissinger bypassed the State Department and began to adjust the United States military patrol policy in the Taiwan Strait, and the two destroyers under the Seventh Fleet no longer patrol the sea on a regular basis.
After a “to begin with with ” , Nixon again sent a message to China, expressing his willingness to come to Beijing and have serious discussions with Chinese leaders, and proposing that his Security Assistant, Kissinger, serve as his special envoy and prepare for Beijing.
It is true that, after the test of the “posterate”, China’s attitude has shifted to a positive one, formally responding in a message to the United States Government by agreeing in principle to Nixon’s visit to China.
According to Kissinger, when he conveyed this message to Nixon, he was excited to say:
“This is the most important letter the President of the United States has received since the end of the Second World War.”
On 9 July 1971, after a long and well-thought-out planning process, Kissinger made a covert visit to China through Pakistan for the first time in the history of the two countries.
On July 15, four days after Kissinger left Beijing, both Governments simultaneously released news of Kissinger’s visit to China, as well as a communiqué that Zhou Eun himself revised:
“It has been learned that President Nixon had expressed the wish to visit the People’s Republic of China and that Prime Minister Zhou Enlai, on behalf of the Government of the People’s Republic of China, invited President Nixon to visit China at an appropriate time before May 1972. President Nixon accepted this invitation with pleasure. I’m sorry.
Kissinger’s meeting with Prime Minister Zhou Enlai.
5
As soon as that short announcement came out, the whole world was staring.
America’s allies have summoned the US ambassador to their home country, accusing the US of acting unprovokedly. Such an important diplomatic move has not been able to communicate with themselves in the first place. Japan has even moved directly to the US with anger.
More pressure comes from within the United States.
In the eyes of politicians in the United States Congress, it is the greatest honour for other nations to be my great American dog, and how dare China negotiate with them?
This is a disgrace to America!
Moreover, a unilateral change of diplomatic relations with China can only be implemented with the approval of various ministerial levels, including the National Assembly, the State Council, the Council of State, the Foreign Affairs Committee, the National Security Council, etc., and you, Nixon, did not have a single permit to communicate with China.
In the midst of popular opinion, this diplomatic campaign, which the United States media rated as “too reckless ” , has had a direct impact on the elections for Nixon’s midterm election.
Not only has the impeachment of Nixon been repeatedly proposed in Congress, but even within the Republican party where Nixon is located, discussions have been going on whether he is fit to remain President of the United States.
But at this point Nixon is already in trouble.
As we move forward, Nixon will be the first President of the United States to visit China after the establishment of the new China, and his name will remain in history.
A step back from the visit to China would amount to a complete “scrambling” of China, with the possibility that the diplomatic channel established with China would be completely closed.
This means that the foreign policy that you set when you come to power will be completely bankrupt, and that your own political life may enter the countdown.
In a difficult situation, everyone chooses the area in which he/she is best at.
Nixon, a socialist, chose to visit all the seniors in politics, and Kissinger, a “reader”, chose to stick his head in a historical pile to find a way out.
Among the few memories of China in the United States, an old story of 30 years ago was repeatedly mentioned by the politicians and the Story Books, and gradually attracted Nixon’s interest in the “Panda Diplomacy” of Song Mei-Yu.
Despite the political and economic failure of Song’s diplomatic attempt, from a cultural point of view, the visit of the two giant pandas did make a lot of “traditional” indifferent to things outside the United States. Americans have become more sensitive to that distant Eastern country.
After the death of Mei-Lan, the last panda in the Western world in 1953, American popular enthusiasm for re-acquiring pandas has been high. The rare bird farm in Miami, Florida, United States, and the Chicago Zoo have written three times to the Beijing Zoo to hope that “a pair of large pandas in China will be exchanged for money or animals” and some civil society organizations have tried to bring the panda back to the United States through a third-party country that is friendly to China.
However, in the general context of the cold war at that time, the United States Congress adopted a special decree imposing on all communism exports, whether direct or through third-party trans-shipment, whether goods or animals, not to enter the United States.
For that reason, The New York Times had also been angry at the fact that the United States Government was so insecure about ideological barriers that it feared that a panda would break the ice.
Under these circumstances, if Nixon’s path to China breaks through and brings the big panda back to Western society, it will undoubtedly greatly ease the current diplomatic difficulties of Nixon’s government.
As a matter of caution, Nixon first approached his iron-stamping ally, Britain, to explore the story: Nixon is known to have decided on a trip to China and promised to take a step forward in the development of American-American political relations, for which China has expressed its great welcome and is likely to offer the big panda of America as a symbol of friendship. What does Britain think about this?
Great Britain says I can’t get the first half, but if you really get the big panda, can you rent me two years?
Nixon also called Japan: China has finalized a visit with me, and we will discuss with China a range of issues, including the Grand Panda Grant, China’s return to the United Nations and Taiwan’s status.
Japan’s reaction is much bigger than that of England, and half of what it says is a crime: don’t say it! Let me just ask you, when you return from China, can we go back to Japan and discuss the issue of big panda gifts with China?
Looking at all the allies as such, Nixon’s heart is almost halfway down, and then he starts to take his allies’ words and in turn convince Congress’s conservative parliamentarians that we cannot afford to keep China out of the family of nations forever.
You see, today I just took a little panda test, and almost all our allies were shaken. If tomorrow China really trades with Europe or Japan with big pandas or other interests, then the whole US foreign policy will be passive!
Kissinger has also begun to work with Nixon in a campaign of public opinion to spread the message that “Congress warlords have lost many of our world’s wonders, such as the giant pandas, because of their endemic phobia.”
Looking at the beginning of public opinion, the possibility of “the U.S. and Japan taking the lead in the diplomatic transition” that Nixon feared existed, and the U.S. Congress finally reluctantly acquiesced in Nixon’s trip to China.
The political crisis caused by a secret diplomacy has slowed down, but Nixon and Kissinger have not felt comfortable, as they still face an awkward problem.
The situation is as if the invitation had been sent out, the chopsticks had been set up, and even the chauffeur had been booked in advance, i.e. there was no idea when the hot pot would arrive.
Nixon and Kissinger are not sure if China will give it to them.
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This is not to say that these two men intended to write “a blank check”.
Kissinger, who is China-wide, is not an outsider of the Great Empire who knows only how to gamble with the blind box, and knows long ago that the new China has a fundamental principle in its diplomacy that “China’s rare animals can only be exchanged, not given, and that capitalist countries can only give low-class animals.”
Given the political circumstances prevailing in China and the United States at the time, it was certainly not “politically correct” for the United States to give first to China’s rare animals, and to expect China to offer large pandas to the United States at its own initiative, Kissinger can only hope that, through constant diplomatic implication, the Chinese will understand the current plight of Nixon, and that the Chinese will live and die.
As early as October 1970, when he visited China for the second time, Kissinger “unintentionally” revealed that Mrs. Nixon, Pat Nixon, was a panda fan and showed Chinese diplomats a picture of Mrs. Pat with a big panda doll.
However, the Chinese authorities are simply surprised that Kissinger will carry a single photo of his boss’s wife, and they do not seem to notice that the big panda should be the lead.
On the eve of Nixon’s visit to China, Kissinger again instructed the members of the advance team to say to the Chinese receptionist: “The American people are so fond of pandas, Mrs Pats had dreams before she came to China that the United States had repossessed a lovely panda ”
China’s personnel responsible for the preparation of the gifts came to a head, and on the occasion of the visit to China by Nixon, China arranged for a visit by Mrs. Nixon to the Peking Zoo panda house.
Kissinger was not discouraged, and in February 22nd, Mrs. Nixon, during her visit to the Panda Hall at the Beijing Zoo, allowed Mrs. Pat to show her extraordinary love for the big panda.
Mrs. Pat not only personally photographed the pandas and fed them, but also deliberately delayed the trip for almost 20 minutes at the time of their departure, and the perfect performance was called “Yi Yi ” .
The Nixons visit the panda house.
However, Chinese diplomats still have no indication.
Although the expected hot pot seems never to be brought to the table, Nixon, during his visit to China, has committed himself, as a mature politician, to the important principle that the United States will withdraw two-thirds of its troops from Taiwan, not support “two Chinas” or “one China, one Taiwan, one Taiwan” and not support Taiwan’s independence movement.
It is only in the absence of big pandas as a bright and visible “face” – a vehement promise and statement such as Nixon and Kissinger that it will ultimately be difficult to secure the support of domestic bureaucracy and the approval of Congress’s legislature – and that the road to normalizing relations between China and the United States may remain extremely uneven.
On the other hand, it was at a party where Nixon arrived before he left China.
The Prime Minister turned around with a box of panda cigarettes and asked Mrs Pats, “Do you like it?”
Mrs Pat’s politely shaking her head and saying, “No smoking.”
The Prime Minister smiled, pointing at the panda on the cigarette case, and asked again:
“Do you like this? You sent two musk cows to the Chinese people, and the Beijing Zoo sent two pandas to the American people. I’m sorry.
Mrs. Pat’s been shooting Nixon in a surprise.
“Oh, my God! Did you hear that? Big panda! The Prime Minister is sending us the big panda! I’m sorry.
At this moment, Mrs. Pat, Nixon, Kissinger and Prime Minister Zhou Enlai both smiled with relief.
On 28 February 1972, the China-United States joint communiqué was published in Shanghai. In the joint communiqué, the United States solemnly stated that it recognized that all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait believed that there was only one China and that Taiwan was part of China. His Government did not object to that position.
On April 16th, 1972, Big Panda Ling Ling and Heung went to the Washington National Zoo in the United States, where 8,000 people came in rain. On the first day of their public display in the United States, two pandas attracted 20,000 people in line, and in 1972 they were called the Year of the Panda.
Following the shock of Nixon’s visit to China’s “shockwaves”, since 1972, the entire Western world began a new wave of interfacing with the People’s Republic of China, breaking up with Taiwan’s authorities and queuing leaders to China’s “receiving” panda.
On September 25, 1972, Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Tanaka visited China, and China and Japan held talks on the construction of a relationship between China and Japan.
In September 1973, French President Pompidou visited China and the giant pandas “Fly” and “Swallow” settled at the Vincenen Zoo in Paris.
On September 14, 1974, when China established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level with the United Kingdom, the giant pandas “Gaga” and “Ging Jing Jing” arrived at the British London Zoo.
On June 16th, 1978, King Carlos I of Spain visited China for the first time, and the Chinese Government donated the giant pandas “Chang” and “Sho”.
On November 5, 1980, Prime Minister Schmidt of the West Germany visited China, where the Chinese government presented the big panda “baby” and “day ” .
From 1972 to 1982, China gave 16 large pandas to the traditional capitalist nation.
As a natural “good-will ambassador”, the panda’s protégé and strength have most rapidly reduced the misunderstandings and hostility between China and the Western world since the outbreak of the cold war, leaving ample room for China to re-establish its image and adjust its foreign policy.
In 1982, in response to a global call for the protection of endangered animals, China stopped giving large pandas to foreign countries free of charge, and the era of pandas as diplomatic envoys ended.
In 1992, Prime Minister Zhou Enlai himself gave Mrs. Nixon the death of the giant panda “Lingling ” , a “panda” for New China panda diplomacy.
The titles of the Washington Post, Financial Times, and mainstream media in Europe and the United States like BBC are clear:
Panda diplomatic envoy died. Record number: YX11VXn1j5Y
I don’t know.
Keep your eyes on the road.
