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...difficulties of America's changing China policy must be placed within a context of past policy toward the People's Republic. America's unstated goal has been to strangle Mao's revolution through a complex strategy of diplomatic isolation, economic boycott, and, most crucially, military and political encirclement...
...When Mao took power in 1949, America's initial reaction was a hands-off policy. In January 1950, Truman made his now famous promise not to "pursue a course which will lead to involvement in the civil conflict in China." Yet when the Korean war broke out, Truman ordered the Seventh Fleet into the Taiwan Straits and established the pattern of massive American military aid to Chiang Kai-shek's regime...
...point is an unnegotiable demand. They see Chaing as a deposed civil war dictator. Not only is America's support of the Chaing clique an attempt at insurrection, but, more crucially, Americans occupy Chinese soil. Due to the past hundred years of humiliation at the hands of foreign conquest, Mao and Chou can find no better issue to galvanize overwhelming domestic support...
...Sensational Role. What is behind the mystery? Little weight is now given to early speculation that the crisis had been set off by the death or illness of Mao, though he is 77 and a reputed sufferer from Parkinson's disease. Nor do Sinologists believe that his tuberculous heir apparent, Defense Minister and Vice Chairman Lin Piao, 65, has died. Mao, it is true, has not been seen in public since August, and Lin was last seen in June. But Chinese diplomats insist that the top two men in the party hierarchy are in reasonably good health...
...Last week Canada and Iceland joined the growing list of countries that plan to reject the U.S. "two China" plan and vote for the seating of the Peking regime as the sole representative of China in the United Nations. It would be ironic if, after two decades of waiting, Mao's regime were to enter the U.N. in the midst of a period of great domestic upheaval...