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...line up by the numbers. Yet the words were justified. In just 90 seconds of television time, President Richard Nixon last week made an announcement that altered many of the major assumptions and patterns of postwar diplomacy. The President would go to Peking to meet with China's Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai before next May. The arrangements had been made by his National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, during a secret meeting with Chou in Peking the week before...
...Tse-tung to French Minister of Culture Andre Malraux...
MERELY gaining effective control over China's 800 million people -a population twice the size of the British Empire at its zenith-was an epic achievement. But Mao Tse-tung's ambitions did not stop there. A few months after his conversation with Malraux, Mao launched the cataclysmic Cultural Revolution. It was the climax, perhaps the final one, in what M.I.T. Sinologist Lucien Pye describes as an effort to remake completely "the thoughts and sentiments of a people who have already been molded by the oldest civilization on earth." Mao wanted to do nothing less than transform...
...Tse-tung...
Since Mao Tse-tung established the People's Republic in 1949, Maxwell maintains, China has striven not to expand but to legitimize its borders. With barely a quibble, Peking negotiated border agreements accepting the postwar status quo with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Mongolia and Burma. The author believes that the Chinese were ready to settle the fuzzy frontier between India and Tibet in roughly the same way. But Nehru was supersensitive to charges from the Indian right that his policy of nonalignment meant "appeasement" of Communism. Gradually, Gandhi's white-capped protege became a hardhat on the Tibetan border...