7. Describe how you learned of China's invitation to Nixon.
Henry Kissinger: Hilali came with a handwritten piece of paper which he was not permitted to leave with us. So it was very mysterious and secretive. And that first communication made it quite clear that they wanted to talk, and wanted to talk at a very high level and that they were also prepared to invite Nixon to China.
We replied that we could not talk only about Taiwan that we were willing to raise - that we wanted to talk about the whole range of issues that could affect Sino-American relations. And we were prepared to let each side raise whatever issues they wanted, but we could not go primarily or exclusively to talk about Taiwan.
