Nation: What Brzezinski Sees

When Energy Secretary James Schlesinger saw China's Chairman Hua Kuo-feng in November, he was asked to relay greetings to only two men in Washington: Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski, The President's National Security Adviser, who made a diplomatically crucial visit to China last May, has long been the most forceful advocate within the Administration of normalizing relations with Peking. Last week TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott interviewed Brzezinski on his thoughts about the changing Sino-American relationship:

Some Brzezinski critics have accused him of unseemly haste in seeking to normalize relations with China and...

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