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...Communism around the world. It was perceived as soft on the Reds, it felt doomed. This is why liberal Harvard-educated Kennedy felt compelled to risk nuclear annihilation over missiles in Cuba, while Nixon, a man who made his reputation as a Red baiter, could embrace Mao Tse-tung with no fear of domestic political trouble. Liberal Democrats Kennedy and Johnson had to fight in Vietnam to prove to the Right that they were no structure in the war against Communism. These domestic American concerns motivated little to the men and women who farmed the rice paddies along the Mckong...
...arrival of the cranes is symbolic of a 180 degrees turnaround in China's attitudes toward birds and indeed much of its wildlife. In 1959 Mao Tse-tung, then Chairman of the Communist Party, declared a "people's war" against the despised "four pests": rats, flies, mosquitoes and, especially, sparrows, which he said consumed too much of the nation's farm crops. Entire villages took to the road, yelling lustily, banging on pots, pans and gongs, and lighting firecrackers; the sparrows were frightened from their roosts and not allowed to realight. Recalls Chinese Ornithologist Tao Yaokuang, who was forced...
...Yaobang was blunt. In an article published last month in the current-affairs magazine Outlook, Hu blamed "radical leftist nonsense" for Communism's failure to meet the economic goals set after the 1949 revolution. Specifically, he warned that China can "never again afford" notions promoted by Mao Tse-tung during the 1958-59 Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s. Hu's observations about the turbulent past highlighted China's current embrace of a new economic philosophy stressing incentives and rewards, propounded by de facto Leader Deng Xiaoping. Correspondent David Aikman, a longtime student...
...most populous nation. Six years after Deng Xiaoping, in an attempt to shape China into a powerful, modern nation, introduced some of the most daring and far-reaching reforms ever attempted in a Communist country, the winds of change are blowing as strongly as ever. Like Mao Tse-tung before him, Deng, now 80, is trying to imprint his notion of what China should be upon the country before he dies. However, unlike Mao, an eternal revolutionary, Deng is a shrewd pragmatist whose economic reforms have proved popular, at least so far, among a people eager for Western-style prosperity...
Another stimulating aspect of being on the boat, said Mintz, was talking with the 150 member Taiwanese crew. The crew is Taiwanese because Tung's family operates the fleet out of Taiwan...