Word: mao
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Even the most fervent defenders of NPT concede that the treaty is imperfect. While three of the five nuclear powers-the U.S., the U.K. and the U.S.S.R.-are parties to it, France and China are not. Yet Charles de Gaulle's treasured force de frappe and Mao Tse-tung's primitive warheads do not now constitute first-rank threats, and the treaty at least ensures that neither will receive outside aid in further development of nuclear weaponry. Moreover, one U.S. official speculates that without NPT the number of nuclear-armed powers would triple in ten years. Among...
Blood on the Border. Within the Communist world, the Soviet campaign was even more aggressive. A joint Soviet-Czech communique "emphatically condemned the recent provocative actions of the Chinese splitters, which inflict serious damage on the forces of socialism." Pravda, organ of the Soviet Communist Party, noted that Mao Tse-tung and his clique had revealed "once more the extent of their political degradation," and the Soviet press continued to bare details of the bloody Ussuri River border clash in the Far East, which, the Russians claim, cost the lives of 31 Russian frontier guards...
...Nationalist government was distracted by the invading Japanese in the east. A few years later, while the Russians were concentrating on the war against Germany, the Chinese re-established themselves in Sinkiang, only to be confronted with rebellions that had at least tacit Soviet support. Even after Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communists came to power in 1949, tensions in Sinkiang continued to seethe, though relations between Moscow and Peking were at least superficially cordial. To the east, all was generally calm. The border between Russia's Maritime Kray (Region) and the Chinese province of Heilungkiang was fixed...
...armed clash on the Ussuri. For the Russians, anxious to build European Communist support for the world party conference scheduled for this May, the incident offers proof of Chinese intransigence, and may indeed further Moscow's hopes of expelling the Chinese from the world movement. For Chairman Mao, who plans to convoke the Ninth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party this spring, the incident is being manipulated to prove that China is truly surrounded by foes and that national unity is now a necessity as never before. For the rest of the world, any lingering doubts about the depth...
...think Chairman Mao has come closer to a utopia than any Western nation...