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...unnegotiable demand. They see Chaing as a deposed civil war dictator. Not only is America's support of the Chaing clique an attempt at insurrection, but, more crucially, Americans occupy Chinese soil. Due to the past hundred years of humiliation at the hands of foreign conquest, Mao and Chou can find no better issue to galvanize overwhelming domestic support...
With the Cultural Revolution safely behind them and domestic stability restored, Chou now stands ready to tackle foreign policy problems. Diplomatic isolation since the Sino-Soviet split has left China with few allies and little flexibility. While Mao's "hard-line" boosted morale, China could do little to help allies materially. Last Spring's slaughter in East Pakistan seriously hurt the credibility of the Chinese position that they would not behave as a superpower. China adopted a policy based on national interest over revolutionary ideology in letting their allies, West Pakistan, crush a popular rebellion. As China saw the alternative...
...urged to tune in, please, for "an important news program" to be aired next day. But the promised telecast was postponed twice, and when the big announcement came at midweek, it only deepened the mystery: like the Tienanmen parade, the great state banquet, which is always hosted by Premier Chou En-lai on the eve of National Day, would also be scrapped. Instead, a perfunctory reception took place that was notable for the absence of any Chinese officials higher in rank than doddering old Vice Chairman Tung...
...probably, that jousting is bound up with the recently intensified efforts by army pragmatists and government moderates to rid the party of the leftist radicals who came to power during the Cultural Revolution. One indication that the moderates are winning is the prominence of China's astute Premier Chou. Most of China's leaders have been making themselves scarce. Chou has been out in public nearly every day. He was the only member of the top leadership to venture out on National Day, when he led Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk on a tour...
...Chou is scoring well outside China, too. Last week Canada and Iceland joined the growing list of countries that plan to reject the U.S. "two China" plan and vote for the seating of the Peking regime as the sole representative of China in the United Nations. It would be ironic if, after two decades of waiting, Mao's regime were to enter the U.N. in the midst of a period of great domestic upheaval...