Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casually as Kublai Khan, Red China's Liu Shao-chi recently marked counterrevolutionary Burma for conquest by renewed infiltration. Red China is already pulling Burma's Communist remnants back toward its border, to a "Yenan" redoubt where they can be reinforced and rearmed. Chou En-lai is pressing U Nu to sign a non-aggression pact that will help sanctify Red China's "Asia for the Asians" doc trine. Chou has invited U Nu to visit Peking, and last week U Nu accepted-without saying when he could be free...
...case of an invasion from Formosa," said one Chinese official); the naked children, their bellies round with starvation, sitting apathetically in the city's gutters. Meanwhile, well out of the newsmen's hearing, Attlee and his fellow travelers talked long and earnestly with Premier Chou En-lai and his henchmen of the possibility of expanding East-West trade. At the end of the talks, a Chinese trade official, Lu Shuchang, told newsmen gratefully that British ships were already helping to bring steel, heavy machinery and other strategic materials from Western Europe to Red China. In London, British officials...
...start World War III over a "faraway island" governed by one whom 71-year-old Clement Attlee calls "an old man [commanding] aging forces." By this time (if old patterns repeat themselves), the U.S. will be made to seem a warlike power, and Chou En-lai will step forward, ready to settle everything-if only he is given Formosa or a free seat...
Some 40 hours later, after a brief stop in Outer Mongolia, the touring Britons arrived in Peking, to be welcomed by Premier Chou En-lai at a cocktail party for 400. At a lunch given by Chou next day, they happily munched on roots of the lotus flower. Perhaps they found time later to recall the Moscow memory of what New York Times Correspondent Harrison E. Salisbury cryptically described as "a mildly admonitory toast offered [late] in the proceedings by possibly the most senior Russian present...
...Formosa will soon be liberated. The Labour leaders can read for themselves that under the new Peking constitution the millions of Chinese in Siam, Burma, Indonesia and Malaya, "neglected" by earlier governments, will now be "protected" by Mao Tse-tung's regime. This hardly squares with Chou En-lai's simultaneous protestations to the Burmese and Indian prime ministers about peaceful co-existence and noninterference...