the Secretary of State, Travels of Intellectual Revolution in Modern China (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University), 1960. pp. Mao Zedong. In a series of major speeches, key national security and diplomatic officials in the Trump administration began the process of alerting the nation and the world, as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo put it, to what the China threat means for our economy, for our liberty, and indeed for the future of free democracies around the world., National security adviser Robert OBrien led off the coordinated messaging in a June 2020 speech where he described the ideological roots of the China threat. We must start by changing how our people and our partners perceive the Chinese Communist Party. [161] Using their experience in rural guerilla warfare, the Communists were able to operate behind the front lines and gain influence among the numerous peasant resistance groups set-up to fight the Japanese. Many communists, however, considered these changes a betrayal of the revolution; their responses gradually became more intense, and the issue eventually began to divide the once cohesive revolutionary elite. [149] This triggered debates inside China on whether the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-Shek, the administration with the strongest claim to national leadership at the time, should declare war on Japan. The goal was to destroy the "Four Olds" of pre-Communist China: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas. A Brief Overview of Chinas Cultural Revolution, A Look at Hong Kong and China 20 Years After Reunification, Which Country Is Larger By Population? The Communists were able to mobilize a massive army of peasants with their program of radical land reform and gradually began winning open battles against the KMT. [31] Where a share of the harvest was paid, as in much of north China, rates of 40%, 50%, and 60% were common. Mass terrorthe Great Terror (19361938) in the Soviet Union, the Great Cultural Revolution in China (19661976). Vietnam). In October 1949, when Mao Zedong proclaimed the birth of the Peoples Republic of China, a Bamboo Curtain descended on some 540 million Chinese just as an Iron Curtain had descended across the European continent. the President, Visits by Foreign Heads
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