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...Mao Tse-Tung and Communist forces take control of China, ousting the Nationalist government...
...addition, Kissinger played an instrumental role in opening relations with the People's Republic of China. His efforts at rapprochement culminated in the 1972 meeting between Nixon and Chinese premier Mao Zedong, the first official contact between the United States and China since the victory of Communist forces...
...conversation. Well, not in the middle; on the right, but perfectly audible elsewhere. His book of speeches is, among other things, a guided tour of the last half century. I am impressed, reading these speeches, at how often Buckley's assessments at the time have been dead-on - about Mao's cultural revolution, about Norman Mailer, about other extravagances. I like the way that Buckley stated his mission in 1964: "To hurl back... the effronteries of the twentieth century...
...important, according to Needham, was that China lost its edge in the 15th century by suppressing entrepreneurs whose power posed a threat to the Emperor. The empire was made safe from within, but at the price of atrophy in the face of the Western challenge. This condition continued under Mao Zedong...
...turmoil of the Cultural Revolution and the no-frills practicality of the Deng Xiaoping era. It took President Jiang Zemin to convince the country's leaders that Beijing needed to replace its fraying theaters with a new cultural landmark. It is the city's biggest public cultural landmark since Mao Zedong's mausoleum was built...