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...armed conflict, guerrilla tactics can be an equalizer. They are weapons, China's Mao Zedong once wrote, "that a nation inferior in arms and military equipment may employ against a more powerful aggressor." That's precisely the situation in which Iraq now finds itself. The coalition rules the skies over Iraq - Saddam's tiny air force hasn't once scrambled its jets since the start of fighting - raining down Wagnerian fury on cities and armies. In open combat, Iraq's armored divisions are being annihilated by allied forces. In such circumstances, it is natural for the Iraqis to resort...
...Zedong's 1949 victory cued a huge exodus to Hong Kong. Searching for work, Lily abandoned her children, telling Guilan, "Here's 50 cents. By the time you spend it I'll be back." Taking Lily's family name to throw the Communists off his trail, Charles stowed away on a boat so crowded that some people died, their corpses tossed overboard. The survivors did not find life in Hong Kong much easier. Charles recalls seeing a former Nationalist general begging door-to-door, holding a newspaper to catch donations. "He didn't even have a beggar's bowl...
There is something creepy about cruising the darkening streets of Beijing sunk in the velvet upholstery of Madame Mao's 1970s Red Flag limousine. My feet propped up on the jump seat?just as Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's third wife, liked to sit on her own tours of the capital?I sip champagne, nibble caviar and nod as my 20-year-old tour guide, Maggie, recounts tales of China's glorious communist past. As we pass Tiananmen Square and its floodlit portrait of Chairman Mao, I've suddenly had enough. Unable to take more of Maggie's garbled history...
...crap thrown at me"?he skyrocketed as a new Prince of Canto-pop. This year he won a World Music Award as China's top-selling artist. And a poll of 1,343 Mainland students found him to be the fourth highest-ranking "idol," after Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong and Bill Gates. (Hmmm: diplomat, oarsman, entrepreneur, rock star; prc kids have a nice sense of variety...
...even killed his chicken for me to eat ... It was at that time that I started believing there was a God in this world. Because if there wasn't, then this world would be given over to demons. And you know in China we have had our demons. Mao Zedong was a demon?in his eyes a human life had no value whatsoever. Deng Xiaoping was a demon?he pointed the guns and tanks at defenseless students at Tiananmen...