BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. The 10 Accidents that changed Australian History (Accidents marked x)  (Chinese Translation attached) 1. The Ping-Pong Saga Begins2 x Finding team leader Jackson in a Factory 2. No Ping-pong Invitation for Australia3. x Jackson discovers Ping-pong Diplomacy4. Ping-pong Invitation to

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. Finally Into China 1. Left Waiting at Lo Wu2. Taiwan Visas;  Entry to China Refused3. Into Canton (Guangzhou)4. Attacked by Radical Students5. Expulsion from Canton?6. Meeting Shirley Maclaine7. Into Shanghai, Bad News Waiting!  Finally I have got the ping-pong team to

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. Meeting Zhou Enlai 1. Welcome Banquet2. Zhou Enlai3. Fractious Officials4. Cold-Shouldered at Chinese Foreign Ministry Arriving in Beijing, we are given the welcome usually reserved for potentates from African countries seen friendly to China. 1. Welcome Banquet There is

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. Meanwhile Back In Australia 1. Wheat Diplomacy2. Australian Reactions to Wheat Ban3. The Mick Young Connection4. The Whitlam Visit to China5. Whitlam in Tokyo; the Kissinger Visit6. Liberal Party Defeated As it turns out, our ping-pong visit does help to open

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES Trade Minister, Jim Cairns, May,1973;   Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, November, 1973; Deputy Prime Minister, Jim Cairns, October,1974. With Whitlam elected as prime minister in November 1972, diplomatic relations with Beijing were quickly established.  In the space

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. 1. The Face of Chaos 2. Sinister Crowds3. Mis-Reporting the Chaos4. The Causes of the Chaos5. Back to Japan and Reflections on the Chaos My 1971 visit and two 1973 visits to China had shown me much about

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES Arriving in Canberra in the cold light of an early spring morning following the Whitlam November 1973 visit to Beijing, I thought for a moment I was still back in China.  The airport with its tiny reception