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Errors & Alliances. Chou, with his multilingual facility (Russian, Japanese, French and English) and broad exposure to the outside world after eight years as Foreign Minister, ranks third in the Red Chinese hierarchy (after Mao Tse-tung and Lin Piao) and is perhaps the most pragmatic of Peking's leaders. Though Chou has led many a Red Guard rally in singing The East Is Red and Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman, Chairman Mao, he has been the constant voice of what passes for moderation in China. While supporting the Cultural Revolution verbally, he has fought hard to keep...
...some districts of Red China, the once ubiquitous portrait of Chairman Mao Tse-tung has been replaced by that of President Liu Shao-chi, his chief opponent. This horrendous fact was reported last week, over the chop mark of Mrs. Mao's own purge committee, as proof that the Maoists' struggle to overcome the enemies of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is far from won. "They disdainfully refuse to admit their guilt," said the wall posters at the People's University in Peking. "We still have a long way to go before eliminating them...
...depends on the other side," he added. Instead, the Russians impugned China's worth as a true Communist nation by spelling out for the first time China's activities in blocking the flow of Soviet arms to Viet Nam. "Abusing the geographical situation," charged Izvestia, "Mao Tse-tung and his group use every means to try to break transportation lines between the U.S.S.R. and North Viet...
According to leaflets distributed in Peking, Mao Tse-tung alerted frontier troops, warning them that the Soviet Union was reinforcing its military strength along the Chinese border for possible anti-Chinese moves. The contempt with which each side now regards the other was nowhere better illustrated than along the Sino-Soviet border in Sinkiang province. There, according to a Japanese correspondent who recently visited the region, Chinese border troops insulted the "revisionists" by hauling down their trousers and flaunting their backsides at the Soviets across the frontier. The Chinese "provocation" ceased when the Russians held up a portrait...
...rage focused ever more fiercely on Russia, Red China last week imposed a notable tightening of internal discipline on Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Red Guards rampaging out of control throughout the country were ordered to return to their schools and homes and cease "exchanging revolutionary experiences" - a Chinese euphemism for raising hell...