Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...News that a Christian group is anticipating the "opening up" of China [Sept. 6] is encouraging. Christianity, however, is an underground religion in China today. Those intent on going to mainland China in the future to disseminate Christian thought had better do it in the name of jen (humanheartedness), not with the idea of "carrying the Word to the heathen Chinese...
Respect is due the other beautiful religions that exist in China. Those going must develop a new kerygma, one based on a thorough understanding of what mainland China is all about...
...cheery approach masks one of the most serious and difficult diplomatic offensives in recent American history: bringing mainland China into the U.N. without allowing the expulsion of Taiwan. It will not be easy to achieve, as Bush quite readily admits. For one thing, he has had to convince delegates that President Nixon was really serious about fighting to retain Taiwan's seat; many of them cynically assumed that the U.S. would go through the motions of fighting for Taiwan, but would be just as glad to be defeated. Bush, who has personally visited nearly 50 delegations to plug...
...strike has brought special hardships to the nation's two outlying states. In Hawaii, which depends on the mainland for most of its food and other consumer items, the prices of some perishable goods have risen sharply. In addition, sugar refiners are searching desperately for space to store 100,000 tons of raw sugar that is currently being produced. Alaskan building contractors who were caught short of supplies by the strike sometimes lost a whole year's work; the construction season there lasts only three months...
Even as the Chinese Ping Pong team is anticipating its trip to the U.S., a number of Christian missionary groups are mulling a return to China. The World Evangelism Foundation of Abilene, Texas, has suggested mobilizing 1,000 three-man missionary squads for the eventual evangelization of the mainland. Their credo: "Let us be ready to be first." Another evangelical group has blithely declared that the Chinese government will topple when Mao dies and that would-be saints who go marching in will be greeted by millions of Chinese eager for conversion...