Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these delicate arts, Chou En-lai excels. He has tyranny's advantages in that he has no popular opinion in his own nation to answer to and thus can pretend a monolithic support that does not exist. At Geneva he confronted a West whose purposes are suddenly cloudy, whose unity is cracked and whose will power is sapped. The dissembler could afford his mocking smile...
However the U.S. tried to minimize its significance, the presence of Chou En-lai (pronounced roughly Joe 'N. Lie) at Geneva symbolized a hard reality. Communist China was determined enough to demand a major role in world affairs, strong enough to get it. In the brief span of four years, Mao Tse-tung and his coterie of Communists had found the means to stalemate the military forces of the world's greatest power on the battlefields of Korea. They had, after rushing to aggression's service in North Korea, replaced Russia as North Korea's occupier...
...materials of power and put them to work. The main elements of that power: CJ United and dedicated leadership. Mao's hierarchy is welded together by more than 30 years' association. It has never had a purge comparable to Russia's."Never forget," said Chou En-lai to an American ten years ago, "that we Communists, like anyone else, will have our disagreements or irritations or schisms. But anyone who tries to convince himself that we will permit these things to split or divide us permanently will be making a terrible mistake...
This is a side of slick Chou En-lai that the world has never been permitted to see. His more familiar talent-the ability to bob, weave and pirouette-was developed in party intrigues. He sided or seemed to side with one faction (e.g., Li Lisan, once the party boss) only to wind up in the end, unhurt and at the elbow of the ultimate winner, Mao Tse-tung, sometime librarian at Peking University. With his Whampoa training, Chou shared command of Mao's peasant armies with Chu Teh, the wily soldier whom Chou had the wisdom to recruit...
Most of all, he served the cause with mental agility and glib tongue. In 1936, when Chiang was close to exterminating Communism as a serious threat to the Nationalist government, Chou En-lai bewitched the "Young Marshal" Chang Hsuch-liang over to the Communist cause, infiltrated his 150,000-man army and talked Chang into such a state of mutiny that he kidnaped Chiang. On Moscow's orders (the kidnaping did not fit the Kremlin's long-range plans for China), Chou reversed himself, glibly negotiated Chiang's release, leaving the Young Marshal high...