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...Tse-tung and Richard Nixon have committed themselves to paper on the subject of how to conduct a relationship between old adversaries. Chairman Mao's writings are the bigger seller, but Nixon's Six Crises has its historical value. Two examples...
...Westerners are as familiar with China and its leaders as Author Edgar Snow (Red Star Over China). As a journalist, he has traveled in China since the 1930s and has had unequaled access to the thinking and policy shifts within the Chinese government, and his personal knowledge of Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai dates from the rise of the Communist movement on the mainland. The first public indication of Mao's willingness to meet with President Nixon was contained in Snow's report in LIFE Magazine on his most recent visit to Peking last winter...
...Whatever the Chinese may think of Nixon's motives, he has earned their appreciation by the courtesy of coming to see them, thereby according prestige to Mao Tse-tung and amour-propre to the whole people. Vassal kings of the past brought tributes to Peking, but never before the head of the world's most powerful nation...
...Nixon's elation was appropriate. Unless some unforeseen and unlikely event aborts his trip, he will become the first Western head of state to visit Peking since Mao Tse-tung's revolutionaries drove Chiang Kai-shek's government out of power and off the mainland in 1949. He will thus dramatically shatter nearly a quarter-century of total official estrangement between the two powers. Certainly, that refusal to deal directly with each other has been blindly unrealistic, and in a sense Nixon's overture was only a move long overdue; it was high time for both nations to change their...
...skill as Mao's longtime ghostwriter earned him the No. 4 spot in the party hierarchy by 1967, when the Red Guard rampages reached their peak. ∙ Four years and several purges later, the Politburo's key committee has been whittled down to just three men: Mao Tse-tung, who heads the party; Defense Minister Lin Piao, No. 2 in the party and Mao's designated heir; and Premier Chou. Because China's presidency is vacant-no successor has been named for Liu Shao-chi, angrily deposed by Mao as a "revisionist" in 1967-Chou...