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...Characters. Many China-watch ers think that fissures have developed in the ranks of both the P.L.A. and the Red Guards, reflecting the struggle for power between Mao and Defense Minister Lin Piao on the one hand and President Liu Shao-chi and Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping on the other. The fissures apparently have regional roots. So long as the Red Guard rampages affected only national interests or the artifacts of the past, no one much cared. But when local property and the jobs of local party functionaries were threatened, resistance rose...
...only carry 700 passengers. Last week 162 Chinese landed in Hong Kong from Indonesia, many of them setting foot on the mainland of Asia for the first time in their lives. Like all new arrivals, they had about them an air of ineffable hope and naiveté. Said Hsiao Hsing-fa, 38, and headed for a new life in Red-ruled Canton: "I am not worried by what I read of the Red Guards, and look forward to a bright future in China...
...country. Mao and his men are out of touch with and unsympathetic to the younger generation of the party, and Mao has already groomed as his heirs-apparent men who will be dutiful preachers of the Maoist gospel. Among them are Party Doctrinal Elder Liu Shao-chi, Teng Hsiao-ping, the party's powerful secretary-general, and Lin Piao, the Defense Minister (see THE WORLD). Eventually, though, the younger generation is bound to rise to leadership, and the China experts hope-but it is only a hope-that they will be more concerned with internal development and less intractable...
...excessive meetings, excessive persons in office, excessive general appeal) and two remembrances, which can be applied in the search for "sweetness." Out of it all comes the most powerful of Chinese weapons: the "spiritual atomic bomb," against which no capitalist-imperialist can stand. After all, as Army Education Boss Hsiao Hua wrote in a 1961 treatise, the People's Liberation Army of Red China has a long way to go toward perfection. "Some of the troops have an incorrect attitude toward military service," wrote Hsiao. "They think that they are 'soldiers of peace...
...enemies, even if they number "as many as the sesame seeds in three baskets." Peking's most formidable source of subversion is the 15 million "overseas" Chinese, who dominate much of the trade and commerce of non-Communist Asia. In Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, the Philippines and Burma, their hsiao-tzu (literally, "little groups"), of three to 22 members, perform subversive chores wherever possible...