Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modest Hope. Though cordial, out of necessity, to Red China ("I have eaten rice with Chou En-lai and Mao Tse-tung"), Prince Sihanouk deals roughly with Cambodia's native Communists, who, he says bluntly, wish "to destroy" him because he will not practice "onesided neutrality" in the manner of Laos' Red Prince Souphanouvong. His desire to preserve Cambodian neutrality now takes the form of wanting the West to be stronger, for he believes that Communism is on the rise in Southeast Asia, and he is eager to find a counterbalance...
Vietnamese troops are also getting lessons in psychology: do not kill farmers' pigs or rape their daughters; military misconduct has been one of the biggest peasant complaints against the government. To make their point, the instructors unabashedly quote Mao Tse-tung himself on guerrilla tactics: "You are fish in the water, and the water is the people." To knit the villages together, give them some sense of contact with Saigon; villagers will be equipped with radio transmitters to permit fast report to headquarters when guerrillas attack. Diem's growing Youth Corps is being trained to run the transmitters...
...socialism, the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party denounced our every initiative in this direction as treason, as appe¶asing the invaders of Formosa, or as a sacrifice of the interests of the people of China to those of the U.S.S.R." ¶EUR| Ever since 1949, Chinese Boss Mao Tse-tung has preached "preventive war" against the West. Then it was excusable because of the "one-sided military character of the Chinese party," which had "grown up as an army and not as a civilian organization like any other Communist Party. Now it is more difficult to understand...
...perennially running for office as the West's favorite Communist. Khrushchev, these experts argue, would like nothing better than to extract concessions from the West in the guise of the reasonable world statesman who needs to show results if he is to stand up to big, bad Mao. Deutscher himself is an ex-Communist and avowed Trotskyite who, though an acknowledged expert on Soviet affairs with intimate contacts among dissident Communists, has long been known for his partiality to Khrushchev. But Deutscher insists the document is genuine and circulating among European Communists. "What if it is a leak...
...power in China -or any part of China. During World War II. British-owned Jardines continued to make beer at its Happy Harmony Brewery in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. When the Communists came, Jardines hoped to do business with them, played an influential part in persuading London to recognize Mao Tse-tung. But by 1954 all of Jardines' mainland assets had been taken over by the Reds-a loss so heavy that the company has never been willing to put a figure...