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Teng:
You can study our cannons.
Kissinger:
We generally do not do any counterbatting fire. But more fundamentally, I think we have had a very useful, very beneficial exchange and in what I consider a friendly spirit of many subjects of common interest. We have always known that we stood for different principles and neither of us have asked the other or will ask the other to transcend the difference.
Teng:
That's right.
Kissinger:
But both of us have been able to work jointly on these matters which we have understood represent common views. And I believe that this has been fortified by our exchange and I would like to thank the Vice Premier for the warm reception we have had here, the frankness of the exchange; the constructiveness of the dialogue and I believe it has been a very positive contribution to the relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China.
Teng:
Do you think that will be all for our talks.
Kissinger:
Except for ...
Teng:
And we should like to take this opportunity to thank the Dr. again for his seventh visit.
Kissinger:
for our encounter after the banquet tonight.