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...would record a strange sight: Nixon, the champion of capitalism, riding with Chou in an official black Hongchi (Red Flag) car and entering Tienanmen Square. There they would pass the ancient scarlet walls of China's imperial past and the Gate of Heavenly Peace, from which Chairman Mao Tse-tung in 1949 proclaimed the birth of the People's Republic...
Alfred Le S. Jenkins, 55, director of the State Department's Asian Communist Affairs section. Another gray-haired Asian hand, Jenkins first went to Peking with the Foreign Service in 1946; he remained in China until driven out by Mao Tse-tung's approaching armies in 1949. He later held sensitive positions in Hong Kong and Taipei. He speaks excellent Chinese. He met Chou En-lai at the 1954 Geneva Conference, and again last fall when he returned to Peking with Henry Kissinger...
...years the Viet Cong has waged a rural revolution against the Central Government, with the good Maoist expectation that by winning the support of the rural population it could eventually isolate and overwhelm the cities. The "first outstanding feature...of People's Revolutionary War, as developed by Mao Tse-tung and refined by the North Vietnamese in the two Indochina wars." Sir Robert Thompson argued in a recent issue of this journal, "is its immunity to the direct application of mechanical and conventional power." In the light of recent events, this statement needs to be seriously qualified...
...first envoy to Imperial China remains accurate to this day. China has long been compared, invidiously, to a colony of human ants. The fact is that the devotion to hard labor noted by Macartney is still the nation's most conspicuous characteristic. If the thoughts of Chairman Mao Tse-tung could ever be boiled down to two words, they might plausibly be "work harder...
...understanding of Mao Tse-tung's present state-psychological or otherwise-is possible without some knowledge of the Ch'ang Cheng, the Long March upcountry by which the Chinese Communist forces escaped annihilation nearly 40 years...