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...Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has produced the greatest proletarian traffic jam in history. From Tibet to Tsingtao, the roads, rails and airlines of Red China are jammed with Chinese on the move. Most are Red Guards heading to and from Peking to spread the word of the leader's glory. Their road map-passed out on trains, sung on airliners-is a cheap (about 25?), red, plastic-bound copy of Mao's Thought. So massive is the movement that the government has begun to drop a hint to the faithful...
Need for a Bang. The true value of the Chinese test last week was psychological and political. It came when the U.S. and its Asian allies were meeting in Manila. At the same time, Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution needed a bang, and the announcement of the missile-borne nuclear test filled that need. The test showed that Chinese science is "advancing at even greater speed under the brilliant illumination of Mao Tse-tung's thought," crowed Peking's characteristically pompous communiqu...
...best interests of the U.S." So he remained at Caltech until 1955. Allowed at last to leave, he returned to the Chinese mainland and went right to work. Soon he was a full-fledged member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was posing for pictures at Mao's side. After a millennium of waiting, the Chinese "fire arrow" clearly had reached maturity...
When (or, as John K. Fairbank said recently, if) Mao dies, Lin Piao will inherit the problems that such an educational system creates. He will control a massive agricultural country that may have crippled its most talented classes. Moreover, Lin is a soldier, who must rely on economic advisors to handle China's industrial and agricultural growth, and Chinese economists have not shown the same imagination in dealing with the economy that Mao has shown with the Party and Lin with the army...
Young Chinese may in the future remember the diary of young Liu Ying-chun who, much like Mao, hoped that his nation's problems might be solved through a combined act of faith and will. They may admire Liu's desire to concentrate on the problems of the oppressed and unliberated peoples outside China. Yet a new Chairman Lin and the ageing Red Guards who grow up under him will for some time have to ignore that international concern while they confront the monstrous, and partially self-imposed, problems within their own borders...