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Richard Nixon called it "the week that changed the world," and he was not exaggerating. On Feb. 28, 1972, at the close of the American President's historic trip to China, he and his host, Premier Chou Enlai, signed the Shanghai Communiqué calling for a renewal of relations between the U.S. and China, implacable enemies since the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949. The agreement led to an immediate exchange of diplomats by the two nations that had fought so bitterly on the battlefields of the Korean War. Despite the problems that persist, particularly those concerning...
...country the tour de force of a lasting revolution, he reawakened the historical Chinese yearning for continuity. By a remarkable irony, the leader who seems to have survived in the hearts of his countrymen is not the epic giant who made the Chinese revolution but his more anonymous disciple Chou Enlai, who worked unobtrusively to assure the continuity of life rather than the permanence of upheaval. In February 1973, however, Mao towered above everyone...
...herself (she had refused an attorney), Jiang Qing gave a long and rambling two-hour defense of the Cultural Revolution, only brief portions of which were shown a week later on Chinese TV. In it she declared that she had only carried out the decisions of Chairman Mao, Premier Chou En-lai and the party Central Committee. Jiang even drew laughs from many of the 600 courtroom spectators when, establishing her revolutionary credentials, she gave an account of her closeness to Mao. "During the war, it was I, the only woman comrade, who followed and accompanied Chairman...
...prime defendant in the trial of the Gang of Four, Jiang Qing, with ammunition for her defense. Ever since the trial opened in late November, Jiang has claimed that her actions could not be criminal since they had the approval not only of Mao but also of esteemed Premier Chou Enlai...
...debate phase of the trial-already completed for all the other nine defendants-in which the unrepentant Madame Mao began to defend herself. According to Chinese observers at the trial, Jiang Qing delivered an impassioned defense of the Cultural Revolution as a correct policy, approved by both Mao and Chou. Jiang claimed that Chou even sanctioned the attack on former Head of State Liu Shaoqi, which is held now to be one of the Gang of Four's gravest crimes. Then she defiantly challenged the court to execute her publicly at a mass rally in Peking's vast...