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Ever since Chou En-lai first raised a goblet of fiery mao-tai to welcome Richard Nixon on his historic visit to Peking in 1972, American and Chinese officials have been toasting the friendship between the great Chinese and American peoples. But the fact is, of course, that from their beginnings Sino-American relations have had little to do with friendship and everything to do with a shared animosity toward the Soviet Union. For the past decade, the China factor has been a critical equalizer in the world balance of power. The Chinese People's Liberation Army ties down...
...tung's takeover of the mainland, the Nationalist government on the island still calls itself the Republic of China. Peking, on the other hand, regards Taiwan as a province under the sovereignty of the People's Republic. The Shanghai Communiqué that Nixon and Chou En-lai approved in 1972 was essentially an agreement to disagree, and to do so quietly. The U.S. did not dispute Peking's claim to the island but reserved the right to continue dealing with Taipei...
...deplore Nazi Germany's actions and not be regarded as antiChristian. We can be revolted at My Lai and not be anti-American. We can scorn Iran's Ayatullah and not be anti-Muslim. But we can never even question Israel's actions against the Arabs lest we be branded antiSemitic. That is psychological blackmail...
...shots. We see the crumpled litter of bodies, the familiar, companionably mounded flesh reposing on the bare dirt in the sun in a stunned fatal sprawl. The inarticulate carrion aftermath. We have seen them in Viet Nam and El Salvador and Uganda and Rhodesia and God knows where. My Lai is the primordial scene of the type. The same evil black bats burst flapping out of the pictures, into the brain, and each time the mind flinches and contracts and sickens and grieves for a moment. And yet, unless the slaughter has some especially lunatic human interest, as Jonestown...
Hersh, who has won numerous major journalism onwards, began his career in 1959 as a UPI correspondent. After serving as a New York Times correspondent form 1963-1977, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 when he uncovered the Mai Lai Massacre...