Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Chinese obviously do not like a U.N. where Nationalist China has a seat and they are excluded; and they would hardly welcome Khrushchev's designation of Nehru as the appropriate man to represent Asia. Not only did the Mao-Khrushchev talks kill the U.N. summit conference; they also involved Khrushchev in a display of belligerence that went far beyond his usual pro forma reminders of Russian military power. The communiqué itself was disfigured by a gratuitous threat "to wipe out clean the imperial aggressors and so establish everlasting peace." And on the heels of this saber-rattling...
...available pieces of jawbone are not enough to flesh out the skeleton on which that theory hangs. But there could be little doubt that Mao had vetoed the summit. Nor is there much question of a sharpening distinction between current Russian and Chinese approaches. Khrushchev's claim to "liberalism" is belied by Hungary and his earlier days in the Ukraine; but he has pragmatically responded to some of the pressures to "liberalize" Russian life...
...Mao is cracking down ever harder, and systematically sealing up every tiny gap in the Bamboo Curtain. The foreign press colony is now almost nonexistent in Peking. In the past six months, nearly two score Chinese servants employed in foreign embassies in Peking (including even that of "comradely" Czechoslovakia) have been whisked off to jail. Last week Mao's government ruled that the embassies and foreign business concerns could no longer hire their own employees, must accept people sent to them by the State Labor Bureau...
...outside air is, in China's present stage, like too much oxygen. Adult Russians have known nothing but a Communist society for the past 40 years; among educated Chinese, the memory of the atmosphere and another kind of thought is only nine years old. On such people, Mao has to cinch the Marxist straitjacket tighter. He is less free to adopt the Russians' confident approach that "peaceful competition" will lead to ultimate Communist triumph. In the classic fashion of young dictatorships, Red China must rely on "the threat from abroad" as a prop to internal discipline...
...this was no sign that Mao was now calling the tune in the Communist world, or, as London's pinko New Statesman put it, that "Communism has two capitals, two spokesmen of equal weight." It suggests that Mao is a drag who on occasion has to be heeded. A nation of 600 million cannot be treated like Bulgaria...