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...factions from the still troubled Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region that borders on North Viet Nam. There, factional strife had drastically curtailed rail shipment of aid to Hanoi. Exasperated officials summoned Red Guard leaders to an acrimonious conference in Peking, where the rebels were interrogated by the leadership, including Premier Chou En-lai and Kang Sheng, the Chinese Communist Party's expert in ideological matters. Excerpts from the transcript...
...Chou: Is it true that your men took away the locomotive of Train...
...soft on reformers and "revisionists." Logically, therefore, the Chinese should have given the Russians good marks for learning their lesson. But Peking seized the opportunity to rip Moscow. "This is the most barefaced and typical specimen of fascist power politics by the Soviet scabs," said China's Premier Chou Enlai. As Peking saw it, the whole episode was the result of a plot by the U.S. and the Soviets to divide up the world between themselves. Still, it was indeed an extraordinary experience to find Communist China condemning a country's loss of freedom in stronger terms than...
...powerful Standing Committee of the Politburo, only two, Premier Chou En-lai and Defense Minister Lin Piao, survive...
...economy, too, has suffered ruinously. In February, Chou En-lai warned that China's vital coal production had fallen off alarmingly. Transportation has been totally disrupted, and sabotage of trains is common as the Maoists and anti-Maoists fight. Trucks are often idle for lack of fuel. China's biggest oil refinery at Taching was partly destroyed by sabotage and is still operating well below capacity-and below China's needs. Shortage of oil cut power to three hours a day in Canton in January, left Peking without heat for much of the winter. Steel and textile...