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...John K. Fairbank, director of the East Research Center, endorsed a statement Sunday that the United States revamp "out-of-date" policy toward Communist China...
...Fairbank said that he signed the statement becasue it promotes putting Communist China in contact with other nations...
Regarding the difficulty of maintaining conditions with Taipel while removing oppostion to Peking's admission into the U.N., Fairbank, said that the feud between Nationalist China and the main land is not something concerning this He emphasized the importance of leaving the United States fleet in Taiwan Straight, but he said that the real problems between Peking and Tapei dissolved through negotiations by countries...
...mollify aging Mao Tse-tung's strident, frequently hysterical anti-Americanism. Nonetheless, both witnesses argued, Mao's successors-and their successors-might be more amenable to reason, and the U.S. should encourage any sign of mellowing in the Chinese revolution. Though Mao would hardly appreciate the comparison, Fairbank said that the Chinese leader actually more closely resembles the prototypical Chinese emperor than any of his heroes in the Marxist pantheon. Eventually, he said, the better side of the feudal Chinese ruler may reassert itself in his successors. China is still governed, after all, by a "great Confucian political...
Assertion of Faith. In Fairbank's view, most U.S. China watchers have attached too much weight to the "visionary" blueprint of world revolution outlined by Chinese Defense Minister Lin Piao last September. Said he: "This was a reassertion of faith, put out mainly as compensation for China's recent defeats in many parts of the globe...