Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What really angered Mao Tse-tung was a secret letter the Russians had sent to most of the pro-Moscow and "neutral" Communist parties of the world. The Soviet slur accused Peking, among other sins, of using "ultra-revolutionary phrasemongering and petty bourgeois revolutionary activities to implement a chauvinistic, hegemonic course." It damned as "adventures" the Red Chinese wars of liberation that have failed, or are failing, in Africa and Southeast Asia. Mao & Co., said the Russians, wish "to represent China as a 'besieged fortress' in hopes of originating a military conflict between Russia and the United States...
...scholars without exception described as unrealistic Fulbright's contention that the U.S. and Red China should agree to "neutralize" Southeast Asia. Samuel B. Griffith, a retired Marine Corps brigadier general and old China hand who holds an Ox ford University doctorate in Chinese military history and translated Mao Tse-tung's key treatise On Guerrilla Warfare, bluntly told the committee: "I don't think the Chinese would place any credibility whatever in any treaty we might sign. We are the demon in Chinese eyes as much as they are the demon in our own eyes...
There is probably no concession the U.S. could make that would mollify aging Mao Tse-tung's strident, frequently hysterical anti-Americanism. Nonetheless, both witnesses argued, Mao's successors-and their successors-might be more amenable to reason, and the U.S. should encourage any sign of mellowing in the Chinese revolution. Though Mao would hardly appreciate the comparison, Fairbank said that the Chinese leader actually more closely resembles the prototypical Chinese emperor than any of his heroes in the Marxist pantheon. Eventually, he said, the better side of the feudal Chinese ruler may reassert itself in his successors...
...East Asia. It is reminiscent in some ways of the colonial wars of the nineteenth century, a type of situation that we generally succeeded in avoiding in that era. I do not contend that we today are simply nineteenth century imperialists come back to life, any more than Chairman Mao is actually a resurrected Son of Heaven in a blue boiler suit. But I don't believe we can escape our historical heritage entirely, any more than he can. We have been part and parcel of the long-term Western approach to East Asia and ought to see ourselves...
...Therapy for Peking's present almost paranoid state of mind must follow the usual lines of therapy: it must lead the rulers of China gradually into different channels of experience until by degrees they reshape their picture of the world and their place in it. The remolding of Chairman Mao, the greatest remolder of others in history, is not something I would advocate as feasible. But I think it is high time