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...neither do two of the nation's leading administrators, Chou En-lai, number three in the politburo, and Tao Chu, number for. Both were considered middle men the summer when Mao and Lin attacked the principle opponents of the Cultural Revolution. But now the opponents, led by President Liu Shao-chi, have possibly backed out of the picture, leaving Chou and Tao leaning dangerously on the wrong side of the fence. The two men want to keep the bureaucracy functioning and the leadership together, but they are in trouble. Mao has reportedly begun to speak out against s "second line...

Author: By T. JAY Mathews, | Title: Trouble in China | 1/12/1967 | See Source »

Last week was particularly rewarding for Peking poster watchers. On Mao's 73rd birthday there appeared, crying aloud, though presumably writ small, since it was 3,000 words in length, the "confession" of President Liu Shao-chi, Mao's principal antagonist in his effort to "purify" Chinese Communism. Liu's "self-criticism," a long-practiced art among Chinese Communists, traced a litany of "sins" reaching back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Handwriting on the Wall | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

Ideological Defect. The burden of Liu's self-denunciation turned on his "lack of understanding" and "miscalculation" of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution-in other words, his opposition to Mao. Now, he said, "I have decided to submit faithfully to the regulations of the party and not to be of two minds in party matters." It all sounded definitively abject-the words of a vanquished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Handwriting on the Wall | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...Guard introduction to the poster said that Liu had made his confession last October at a party caucus. And for all the Red Guard denunciations before and since, Liu is still President of China. The conclusion of Sinologists: Mao's opposition, including such "revisionists" as Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping, is still too powerfully entrenched in the party apparatus, still has too much of a following in the countryside to be summarily ousted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Handwriting on the Wall | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...posting of Liu's confession seemed aimed at rousing public ire against him and strengthening Mao's hand. The next day, some 100,000 Red Guards poured into the Peking Workers' Athletic Hall for "A Rally for Thoroughly Criticizing Liu and Teng for Their Bourgeois Reactionary Lines." The youngsters boomed approval when speaker after speaker denounced Liu as "the Khrushchev of China," the "boss of the capitalist class," and warned that unless the Liu-Teng platforms were banished, "China itself might fade away." Clearly, the Guards were pressing for a showdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Handwriting on the Wall | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

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