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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Reynolds, David

Titel

Communism the Chinese way

Ist Teil von

• New statesman (1996), 2019-10, Vol.148 (5491), p.30-35

Ort / Verlag

London: New Statesman, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• With a huge parade of military might, the country was obliged to relive the moment in 1949 when Mao Zedong stood on the Gate of Heavenly Peace (or Tiananmen) in Beijing to proclaim the triumph of the communist revolution after more than two decades of on-off civil war. At a time when Americans wonder where they are going from month to month (and we Brits from day to day), President Xi Jinping has committed huge resources to the "One Belt, One Road" land and sea infrastructure project, embracing more than 150 countries. The US president was indulging in rhetorical overkill, hoping to scare a penny-pinching Congress into granting $400m of aid to Greece and Turkey, but the "Truman Doctrine" became the template for Americans' view of the Cold War. [...]Stalin kept the PRC's new supremo at a distance.