Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris bureau they received an unexpected contribution -an intimate, first-hand report on Chinese Communism from the staff librarian, Jean Pasqualini. Born in Peking of a Chinese mother and a Corsican father, Pasqualini served as an interpreter for the U.S. Marines after World War II, later was arrested by Mao's police, charged with spying and sentenced to twelve years in a labor camp. After serving seven years, Pasqualini was released...
...past two decades, since Mao Tse-tung seized control of nearly one-quarter of the human race, the U.S. has done its best to quarantine Communist China. The policy began with nonrecognition, based partly on moral disapproval of the Communist takeover. It was later stiffened with "containment," a strategy designed both to weaken the regime and to keep the Chinese from overrunning their neighbors. Despite a long tradition of U.S. sympathy for China, most Americans have regarded the quarantine as all the more prudent since China exploded its first nuclear device...
...contrasting theory, of course, holds that the U.S. effort in Viet Nam has demonstrated that "wars of liberation" cannot succeed cheaply and has stiffened anti-Communist sentiment along China's rim. Some U.S. officials believe that a new U.S. policy would vitiate these benefits by handing Mao a "success" against the U.S. and seeming to signal a lessening of American firmness throughout Asia. Advocates against change also argue that a softer U.S. line would help Maoism recover from its self-inflicted domestic wounds, and would eventually lead the U.S. to break its commitment to Taiwan...
Even so, the case for taking some conciliatory steps toward Peking is based on the likelihood that after the passing of Mao, who is 75, there will be a power struggle in China between the moderates and Mao-style radicals. An easing of tensions between the U.S. and Peking, goes the theory, would strengthen the moderates. Therefore, it might well be unwise to wait until the new regime is actually in place before the U.S. restyles its policy. By trying to draw China into the world mainstream, however futile at present, the U.S. could at least put the onus...
...take exception to your qualification of Bolivia's army as "ineffectual." If effectiveness is the capacity to perform specific tasks, it is well to remember that the Bolivian army successfully and speedily dealt with the guerrillas organized by the infamous Che Guevara, who was considered, together with Chairman Mao and General Giap, the supreme specialist in that kind of warfare. If the U.S. Army, with its fantastically superior might, had been proportionately as successful in dealing with the Communist threat in Southeast Asia, I am sure you wouldn't have thought of calling it ineffectual...