Chapter 76 There is something in common between China and France[1]

(January 30, 1964) welcome.Let's be friends, be good friends.You are not the Communist Party, and I am not your party; we are against capitalism, and you may be against Communism.However, it is still possible to cooperate.There are two fundamental commonalities between us: first, we oppose big countries bullying us.That is to say, no major country in the world is allowed to shit on our heads.I speak very rough.Regardless of whether it is a big capitalist country or a big socialist country, we will not allow anyone who wants to control us or oppose us.Your country's capital is greater than ours, and your atomic bombs have already been manufactured, perhaps in batches? I have no objection to your production of atomic bombs.A large number of atomic bombs are in the United States and the Soviet Union, and they are often held in their hands and waved to scare people.Second, to enable the two countries to communicate with each other commercially and culturally.I hope you will reverse any embargoed strategic materials.What is sold to us now is only some civilian supplies, and the strategic supplies are not sold yet, and the United States does not allow them to be sold.I said that one day this gap will be broken through.For example, oil, because it is a strategic material, you are not allowed to do business with it.Food, we have done business, because it is not a strategic material.Britain sold us some planes, and you can do the same.Why can't some ordinary arms be used for business?

The United States scares some countries from doing business with us.The United States is a paper tiger, don't believe it, it will be pierced by poking it.The Soviet Union was also a paper tiger.We don't believe what they say, I'm not superstitious.Maybe you are theists, I am an atheist, and I am not afraid of anything.It won't work if a big country comes to control our country.France is a small country, China is a small country, and only the United States and the Soviet Union are big countries. Do we have to do everything according to them and make a "pilgrimage" to them? We did the same before, that was under Stalin.In 1957, I went to Moscow once.At that time, the Soviet Union did not openly oppose us.Not going now, because it tore up a large number of contracts, broke its promises, openly opposed us, and cooperated with the United States.That's great, I agree.Great powers like the United States and the Soviet Union always have some reason to oppose us, and we must have something worthy of their opposition.Now, Sihanouk [2] does not follow the example of the United States.Cambodia is a country with only five million people, but it dares to fight against the United States.

You can cooperate with us in Asia and compete with the United States.America is unpopular everywhere.On the 26th of this month, more than one million people in Japan demonstrated against the United States.I once talked with your former Prime Minister, Mr. Faure, and hoped that you would do a good job in Europe, for example, keep Britain, West Germany, Belgium, Italy and other countries separated from the United States and closer to you.Didn't you say that you want to build a "third world"? There is only one France in the "third world".Britain, I think there will be a change one day.Americans are also less polite to the British.In the East, you can do Japanese work.If Britain is brought over, from London and Paris in Europe to China and Japan, the "third world" can be expanded.

You should not learn from Britain's attitude on the Taiwan issue.Britain has only one difference with us, and that is, it is not sure about the status of Taiwan.First, it is good that the UK recognizes the People's Republic of China but not Taiwan; second, it is also good that the UK votes for us in the United Nations; The dots indicate that it is an agent of the United States.We have had diplomatic relations with Britain for more than ten years, and it, like you, wants us to send an ambassador, and it sends an ambassador.We said no, we can do it for another 15 years, or even decades, and we will not send ambassadors.It doesn't matter if the United Nations can't get in.We have survived without joining the United Nations for fifteen years, and if Chiang Kai-shek's "generalissimo" stays in the United Nations for fifteen, thirty, or one hundred years, we will still survive.If we want to recognize "two Chinas" or "one and a half China", that will not work.If you want to send an ambassador, you should send an ambassador. Don’t be like the United Kingdom, who has been doing it for more than ten years and is still a charge d’affaires. Don’t fall into the trap of the United States.If you don’t understand this point, we won’t accept your ambassadors, and we won’t send ambassadors to you, so let’s make this clear in advance.When I met Mr. Faure, I also made this point clear to him.Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement, and also greeted you in Switzerland, and reached an agreement.Do you have any passwords for communication with China? It is inconvenient to communicate without a password when traveling abroad.

You must distinguish yourself from the British, and you must speak clearly and clearly.I am a soldier and have fought in war for twenty-two years. General de Gaulle[3] is also a soldier. Don't crooked or diplomatic. France is no longer Hitler's [4] France, and China is no longer Japan's China.In the past, from Beijing to Nanjing, most of China was occupied by Japan.After the Japanese were driven away, the Americans came again, and we drove away both the Americans and Chiang Kai-shek.At that time, we had nothing, no planes, no tanks, and no atomic bombs.We just have some rifles, grenades, light artillery.Thanks to the Americans for transporting us a batch of heavy artillery, Chiang Kai-shek was the leader of the transportation team.We have no arsenal, nor any foreign aid.Have you ever been to our small place—Yan'an? It was very backward, with only agriculture and a little handicraft.At that time, we said that the United States and Chiang Kai-shek were paper tigers.We also said that Hitler was a paper tiger, so he fell in the end and died.Now we say that there are two big paper tigers, the United States and the Soviet Union.I'll see if it works or not.Please remember that I told the delegation of French congressmen that they are big paper tigers, but they do not include the broad masses of the Soviet people, the broad masses of Soviet party members and cadres. They are friendly to us. Some of the American people have been deceived. One day they will be friendly with us.The so-called paper tigers mean that the United States and the Soviet Union have divorced themselves from the masses.When Hitler occupied almost the whole of Europe, what a power! You have all experienced this.

Do you believe in comprehensive and thorough disarmament? There is no such thing. Now it is comprehensive and thorough military expansion.It is possible to reduce some of the infantry and spend the money saved on building the atomic bomb.You France have been able to explode the atomic bomb.We are one step behind you. The atomic bomb has not exploded yet, but it will explode one day. There is one more thing we have in common with you, the Three Kingdoms Treaty [5], we do not participate in it.It is a kind of deception and blackmail, and it oppresses us. Only they are allowed to have it, and we are not allowed to have it.Our two countries have not exchanged views beforehand, you did not participate, and neither did we.

People from some Asian countries are opposed to your coming to Asia to support Sihanouk; as for South Vietnam, only the United States is allowed to occupy it, and you are not allowed to help.U.S. Secretary of State Rusk said in Tokyo that General de Gaulle wanted to take an olive branch into Asia, but he did not.With an olive branch in one hand and a sword in the other, the United States has been fighting in South Vietnam for several years, and the more it fights the people, the more it develops.Its sword killed two people there, one named Ngo Dinh Diem[6] and the other Ng Tinh Nhu, which was done very badly.I don’t think you are happy, are you? Why do such a thing! The so-called new government that has been installed now is still not working, the US policy is too wrong.There is a saying in China's Sichuan province that if ten fingers press ten fleas, none will be caught.

Both of us can also do work for Japan.One day Japan will drive the United States away.What I’m talking about is not only the Japanese Communist Party, but also the big capitalists in Japan. Now some big capitalists in Japan are very uncomfortable with the United States.The British issue is a little more troublesome. One day it will not be an agent of the United States. We have no objection to your friendship with the United States. For you, it is both unity and struggle.We will resume diplomatic relations with the United States after the Taiwan issue is resolved.Even if diplomatic relations are restored, if the United States still interferes and controls everywhere like it is today, we still have to oppose it.We demand that U.S. imperialism get out of Asia, get out of Africa, get out of Latin America, and get out of Europe.Europe belongs to the Europeans, so what are the Americans going to do? There is a member of the British House of Lords, Field Marshal Montgomer[7], who opposes the North Atlantic Treaty[8] in which the Americans seek hegemony.He objected to Canada being too close to the United States.I told him that time that you should go to General de Gaulle.That was when he visited China for the second time in 1961, probably he did not go, he is a Conservative Party.I asked him, are you the only one who holds your opinion? He said, no, there are others.He firmly opposes the hegemony of the United States in Europe, and he is not a member of the Communist Party.

According to the "Mao Zedong Diplomatic Selected Works" published in 1994 by Central Literature Publishing House and World Knowledge Publishing House. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] This is a conversation between Mao Zedong and the delegation of French parliamentarians. [2] Sihanouk, namely Norodom Sihanouk, born in 1922, was the head of state of Cambodia at that time. [3] Charles de Gaulle, then President of France.Led the French resistance movement against the armed occupation of fascist Germany during World War II.

[4] Hitler (1889-1945), the leader of German fascism and the leader of the Nazi Party.In 1933, he became prime minister with the support of the German monopoly capitalist class. After the death of President Hindenburg the following year, he claimed to be the head of state, implemented fascist rule, and actively expanded the army and prepared for war.In September 1939, German troops were sent to invade Poland, provoking World War II; in June 1941, they aggressively attacked the Soviet Union.In April 1945, when the Soviet army liberated Berlin, he committed suicide. [5] Refers to the "Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, Outer Space and Underwater" signed in Moscow on August 5, 1963 by the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom.

[6] Ngo Dinh Diem (1901-1963), former President, Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of the "Republic of Vietnam".On November 1, 1963, in a military coup planned by the United States, he was shot dead together with his younger brother Wu Tingru. [7] Montgomery, see note [1] on page 193 of this volume. [8] Refers to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.In April 1949, the United States, Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Iceland and Canada signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington.On August 24 of the same year, the Convention entered into force, and the North Atlantic Treaty Military Group was established.Greece and Turkey joined the organization in 1952, the Federal Republic of Germany in 1955, Spain in 1982, and Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary in 1999.