Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mao Tse-tung's Chinese Communist government, already beset by problems in Korea and Formosa (see above), discovered it had still more trouble on its hands inside China...
Ever since the Communists conquered China, Tibet has peered uneasily from its mountain fastness at the ominous doings on the plains below. In other days Tibet was an "autonomous" province of China, but Mao Tse-tung had made it clear that he would like to establish firm Red rule over the province, if & when his armies get around to establishing same...
...from Lhasa that his trip was off. Britain had never signaled a welcome for the Tibetan emissary: it did not want to antagonize the Chinese Communists, with whom it has been trying to shake hands ever since it offered recognition of the Reds last January. Lhasa, getting nervous about Mao Tse-tung's increasingly noisy promises to send his armies in to "liberate Tibet," thought Yuthok had better turn around and come home...
Certainly, there is no call for wild optimism. French equipment sadly needs modernization and overhaul. The French would put up a stiff fight against invasion, but there is no doubt that if Stalin threw caution to the winds and ordered Mao to march south with everything he had, the French would be swept into...
Though the Chinese Communist regime had pointedly snubbed the British (TIME, April 17), though last week Chinese Communist guns were shelling British and other shipping around Hong Kong, the British government still feared to be the least bit beastly to the Chinese Communists, still had hopes that Mao Tse-tung might become an Asian Tito...