The seed of paranoia had been sowed back in 1954, when US secretary of state John Foster Dulles refused to shake Zhou’s hand at the Geneva Conference, where diplomats from Asia, Europe and the ...

On this day in 1953, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, addressing the American Federation of Labor at its annual convention, said “communist leaders who openly repudiate the restraints of ...

“I had in mind John Foster Dulles’s refusal in the 1954 Vietnam Conference to shake Zhou Enlai’s hand. So I was straining to see Nixon shaking Zhou’s hand at the airport, because I was going to make a ...

Zhou Enlai, prime minister of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until 1976, ... Hear NPR's Scott Simon and John Pomfret of The Washington Post. World. Book Re-Examines Zhou's Legacy in China.