"It is too soon to say."

“The Mystery of Zhou Enlai" by Jonathan Spence, reviewed in The New York Review of Books”

“China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all … but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.”

“Zhou Enlai, Stephan Landserger's Chinese Propaganda Pages”

“We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.”

“For us, it is all right if the talks succeed, and it is all right if they fail.”