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The Secretary of State will wish to stress our
wis to conclude an Air Services Agreement and our
hope that substantive negotiations can begin as
as possible.
II
International subjects of general interest
(a) General review of international situation
(Secretary of State to lead)
16. The Chinese are likely to range widely over
international problems. They will wish to hear the Secretary of State's views about the international
situation in general.
They will want to expound in
some detail their own view of the world.
17. It seems probable that the principal elements
in current Chinese foreign policy derive directly from
judgements made by Mao Tse-tung about the Soviet Union as an exponent of communism and about the nature of
Soviet society. Mao seems to have convinced himself
in the late 1950s that the USSR, under the inspiration
of Khrushchev, had deliberately determined to abandon
the international aims of Marxism, and had turned
Excfish towards revisionism in the pursuit of its on material
prosperity. The conclusion which Mao seems to have
drawn was that China must at all costs be safeguarded
from the evil of revisionism. The result was the
launching by Mao, as homo minister et interpres naturae,
of the Cultural Revolution as an attempt, among other
things to change the nature of society before it could
become infected by Soviet example. This led to the
formal designation of the Soviet Union as China's (and
Marxism-Leninism's) principal enemy. In the late
1960's Mao began to see Russia as a positive threat.
Rigid Soviet belief in the righteousness of their
claim to the true Marxist inheritance combined with a
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