Warship visit to China off
NZPA-Reuter Peking A proposed visit by United States warships to Shanghai, expected to take place this month, seems certain to be cancelled, western diplomats said yesterday.
Peking agreed in August to the first United States naval visit to Shanghai since 1949, but the plans caused controversy last month when the Communist Party chief, Hu Yaobang, and a senior aide said Washington had undertaken not to send nuclear-armed or powered ships.
the remarks were in direct contrast to Washington’s refusal to promise its ally, New Zealand, not to send nuclear ships there and the United States later denied it had given such a guarantee.
Western diplomats, who asked not to be named, said the visit, ' which United States officials had expected to happen about May 18, would be called off or postponed indefinitely.
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