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...MBAs. But as China's economy and confidence grow, its young citizens are the ones most eager for Beijing to flex its muscle. Perhaps that's not surprising. This is the first generation in People's Republic history not to have suffered through the trauma of war. "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 take-out. "But our leaders now don't have the guts to get in a fight...
...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...
...correspondent for TIME. General Douglas MacArthur's amphibious landing at Inchon had succeeded brilliantly. The North Korean invaders, encircled from behind, had been taken prisoner by the tens of thousands. But then, as MacArthur drove northward toward the Chinese border, dividing his forces in a two-pronged offensive, Mao Zedong's "volunteers" had slipped unseen into the mountains between. Not until July 1953, after more dreadful bloodshed at places like Heartbreak Ridge and Pork Chop Hill, was the present armed truce established...
...addition, Kissinger played an instrumental role in opening relations with the People's Republic of China. His efforts at rapprochement culminated in the 1972 meeting between Nixon and Chinese premier Mao Zedong, the first official contact between the United States and China since the victory of Communist forces...
...according to Needham, was that China lost its edge in the 15th century by suppressing entrepreneurs whose power posed a threat to the Emperor. The empire was made safe from within, but at the price of atrophy in the face of the Western challenge. This condition continued under Mao Zedong...