Word: tse-tung
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...Clearly, we destroy each other, and China wins. Suppose, on the other hand, that a war breaks out between the U.S. and China-what happens then? You Americans drop nuclear bombs on China and kill a few million people, and the other 500 million or more dig in. Mao Tse-tung calls on us for support, and so again the Russians and the Americans destroy each other-and China still wins...
...highly developed Soviet industrial society. The doctrine has come under increasing attack from the militant revolutionaries of Communist China (TIME, June 27). Last week, calling Eastern European Communist leaders to his side, Khrushchev went before the Rumanian Party Congress in Bucharest to give his first direct answer to Mao Tse-tung's challenge to his ideological primacy among world Communists...
...studied under Clement Attlee at the London School of Economics. Deported, he returned to Japan and was in and out of jail until 1931, when he fled to Russia with his wife and became an executive member of the Comintern. In 1943. Nozaka was sent to join Mao Tse-tung in the Yenan caves as an adviser; at war's end he started back to Japan in a U.S. military transport plane. He was purged by General Douglas MacArthur for agitating against the Korean war, went underground, and surfaced again...
Clearly Mao Tse-tung was challenging Nikita Khrushchev as the ideological leader of the Communist world. The downing of the U.S. spy plane and the Paris summit fiasco have filled Chinese newspapers with cocky cries of "I told you so" and open assertions that, whatever happens to the rest of the world, Communist China is big enough, to survive nuclear war. At a recent meeting of the Red-led World Trade Union Federation in Peking, the Chinese Communists described themselves as the champions of repressed peoples against the "satisfied" or the "have" nations, in which category they included Russia. They...
...Soviet vulnerability." The failure to win over the President, plus Ike's outspoken defense of the U-2 flights, probably hurt Khrushchev seriously in the eyes of his own people, hurt his position in the Communist bloc as well. (During the U-2 uproar, China's Mao Tse-tung noted caustically: "This ought to convince those naive enough to put their trust in imperialists.") Asked by the New York Herald Tribune's intrepid Moscow correspondent Tom Lambert to explain what he had meant by saying in Paris that his "attitude on the U-2 flight...