It is possible to postpone the dates of 11 and 12 by a few days, with April 15 being the
preferred date? Please allow the Premier to decide.

[1] This comment was written on a report submitted by Premier Zhou Enlai to Mao Zedong
and others on March 24, 1970. The report stated that the United States, "due to tensions in
the Middle East, the Cambodian coup, and US-Soviet tensions, and our direct request for it
to come to Beijing to discuss key Sino-US issues, was unable to respond, and it was
inconvenient to schedule a meeting in March. Therefore, on March 23rd, it proposed talks in
early April." "It is foreseeable that the United States believed it was premature to publicly
send a special envoy to China (it had already hinted at this in early March), but was also
concerned that we would intensify our anti-US stance due to the Cambodian coup.
Therefore, first there was Yahya's message conveying the intention to open a direct channel,
and then there was the US Embassy's notification of talks in early April." Therefore, "it is
proposed to postpone the Sino-US talks to April 11th, 12th, or 13th, that is, after the Chinese
Premier's visit to North Korea and before the US-Soviet nuclear talks (in mid-April). I wonder
if this idea is appropriate. Please comment, Chairman."