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...they were seeing only small patches of sky. After New York Times Columnist C.L. Sulzberger left China, he wrote a wry piece last November indicating how little he had really been able to observe: "I can only boast I am the first American columnist over 60 to visit Inner Mongolia since 1949, and the first with a Greek wife to lunch in Chengchow...
...resident newsmen, jealous that they rarely have access to either Inner Mongolia or Premier Chou, have far more to complain about. Their living conditions may be excellent; a modern, eight-room apartment rents for $180 a month, and the wages for a domestic staff of four-interpreter, driver, cook and maid-are only $290 a month. But the Western reporters must labor under conditions alien to their professional standards. The Chinese make serious political analysis and hard-news reporting almost impossible...
Near the end of the war, the Soviet aim of reuniting the old Tsarist empire accomplished, Stalin looked further afield. One by one, countries in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and choice areas of Asia (including parts of Mongolia, Manchuria and Japan) fell under Soviet domination. In some of these countries, genuine socialist revolutions may have taken place, albeit with the assistance of the powerful Soviet military machine. The eventual result, however, was the establishment, by 1948, of a far-flung Soviet sphere of influence which would have dazzled the Tsars...
...were again shaken by the Lin Piao affair. Though he was Mao's heir designate, Lin, according to the official Peking version, attempted a coup against Mao. When his plot was discovered, he tried to escape to the U.S.S.R., but died when his plane mysteriously crashed deep inside Mongolia...
...Peking leaders have overwhelming justification for fearing the Soviet Union, which has stationed one million men on the China border and a nuclear phalanx in nearby Mongolia. On the other hand, it may be that in their dealings with the United States and in their own internal debates, the Chinese will tend to exaggerate the extent of the Soviet threat and particularly the Soviet desire to continue to commit vast resources to the military buildup on the China border. Could it be that the Soviets have learned from the Vietnam war that the massive use of force against Asian countries...