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By ARTHUR W. ARUNDEL
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Peking - At each new discovery in his young life, our 10-year-old son likes to say, “that’s incredible." At high noon here in China he should be asleep under the harvest moon at midnight there in Virginia. So, Tom, it’s my turn to say, “it’s incredible."
For the journalist or the scholar to play geopolitical analyst after three weeks inside China and Tibet would be presumptuous foolishness. 1 will rather try to share here a few commonplace stories and notes written along the way which together may carry a sense of China today.
A Closer World
Aboard one of those flying 747 housejets, with wife Peggy along, we soar the new polar sky route over the Yukon and in one great leap from Washington, land half way around the world in Hong Kong, this jewel of Asia. We easily call home to check in with our children, around the earth by direct push button phone. It is at the outset we realize how very close late 20th century transportation. satellite communication and technology is bringing the world’s people and commerce. to say nothing of the missile birds of war. By chance on the plane is former President Nixon, pleasant, always drawn back, but anticipating his deserved recognition in Peking on the 10th Anniversary of his dramatic and historic 1972 China trip.
Through the Red Curtain
With 16 other Americans associated with the National Zoo in Washington, we leave Hong Kong aboard a crisply clean and comfortable train. There is a pause for a cursory border check, taking aboard
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