Chapter 88 If Nixon is willing to come, I am willing to talk to him[1]

(December 18, 1970) I welcome Nixon[2] to power.Why? He also has deceitfulness, but it is a little less, believe it or not? He is more hard with you, but also soft.If he wants to come to Beijing, you can send a letter telling him to come secretly, not publicly, and just get on a plane.It's okay to talk about it, and it's okay to talk about it.Why be so stiff? But you in the United States have no secrets, and it is impossible for a president to go abroad to keep secrets.If he wants to come to China, he will definitely brag about it, saying that his purpose is to drag China into the Soviet Union, so he still dare not do so.Rectifying the Soviet Union is now not good for the United States; rectifying China is not good for the United States either.

Now one of our policies is to prevent Americans from coming to China. Is this correct? The Ministry of Foreign Affairs should study it.Let the left, center, and right come.Why should the right give way? That is to say, Nixon, who represents the monopoly capitalists.Of course, let him come, because to solve the problem, the centrists and leftists are not good, and we have to solve it with Nixon now. He had already written everywhere saying that he would send representatives, but we didn’t publish it, so keep it a secret! He was not interested in the talks in Warsaw, Poland[3] and wanted to come for the interviews.So, I said that if Nixon is willing to come, I am willing to talk with him. It doesn’t matter if the talk is successful or not. Row.All in all, either way.I don't think I will quarrel with him, criticism is to criticize him.We also have to make self-criticism, that is, talk about our mistakes and shortcomings, for example, our production level is lower than that of the United States, and we do not make self-criticism for other things.

Nixon wanted to send a representative to China for negotiations. It was his own proposal. There were documents to prove that he was willing to have an interview in Beijing or Washington. We should not let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs know, nor would it go through the US State Department.It is very mysterious, and it is proposed not to make it public, and it means that this kind of information is very confidential. In 1972, the United States will have a general election. In my opinion, Nixon may send someone to come in the first half of this year, but he will not come by himself.It's time to talk.He is reluctant to part with that Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek is not dead yet.What does Taiwan have to do with him? Taiwan was created by Truman[4] and Acheson[5], and then there is another president, so he just has a part in it.Then there was Kennedy again[6].Nixon was the vice president, and he ran across Taiwan at that time.He said that there are more than 10 million people in Taiwan.I said that there are more than a billion people in Asia and 300 million people in Africa, and they all rebel there.

China and the United States will always establish diplomatic relations.Is it true that China and the United States will not establish diplomatic relations for a hundred years? We have not occupied your Long Island. 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 part of a conversation between Mao Zedong and American progressive writer and journalist Edgar Snow. [2] Nixon, then President of the United States.

[3] Refers to the Sino-US ambassadorial talks.See note [8] on page 64 of this volume. [4] Truman, President of the United States from 1945 to 1953. [5] Acheson (1893-1971), an American Democrat, served as the US Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953. [6] Kennedy, President of the United States from 1960 to 1963.