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...China's Mao Zedong once vowed, "We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports." This served as a guiding strategy for the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, when millions of innocents were tortured. It was a mistaken principle then and remains...
...interest that brought Washington and Beijing together back in 1972. The Nixon administration engaged with China not because it believed this would make China a more open society or economy, but because it would outflank their mutual enemy in Moscow. Later, as the crypto-capitalist Deng Xiaoping replaced Mao Zedong and began opening China's markets to the West, the relationship morphed from an alliance of convenience against a mutual foe into a partnership based on trade and investment...
...mass cultural gathering" that featured pirouetting schoolchildren singing ditties like New Beijing Love, New Olympic Dreams. Then President Jiang Zemin hitched a ride to Tiananmen Square for the most populist performance of his career. He appeared on the rostrum overlooking the crowd?near the same place Chairman Mao Zedong had reviewed a million Red Guards, the shock troops of the Cultural Revolution?and waved his arms like a conductor as the masses sang along with a revolutionary hymn that boomed from loudspeakers. The roar of support was deafening. "Seeing him was like a dream; I will treasure this night forever...
...campaign at times resembles the excesses of the Cultural Revolution of Mao Zedong. The government has launched a drive to secure 1 million children's signatures opposing Falun Gong. In the lakefront city of Hangzhou in eastern China, grammar-school students recently attended a lecture by their principal on the evils of the group. Afterward, students took turns facing their classmates to swear: "I do not believe in Falun Gong. I believe in science." Eight-year-old Yu Xiaohong stunned his teachers by striding forward and declaring, "I do not believe in Falun Gong. I believe in Jesus." The teachers...
Though authoritarian leaders are supposed to be immune to polls and popular will, Jiang also had to worry about the Chinese public. Anger at the U.S. could easily twist into fury at him for failing to defend the motherland. "If Mao Zedong were the leader today, he would have shot down the American plane," says Li Hua, a physics student from Shanghai, who counts KFC as her favorite takeout. "But our leaders now don't have the guts to get in a fight." At first this incident looked like a reprise of the Belgrade embassy bombing. Anyone watching the official...