Chapter 64 Beijing is full of guests

Over the years, I have found that the waiting rooms or waiting rooms of airports and stations are great places to meet long-lost friends.Usually, we are all busy with our own affairs, so it is rare to have a chance to sit down and have a chat. Let’s book a date specially. It is rare to have the same free time, rare to have a complete number of people, and rare to have a suitable location... In short, there are many difficulties. However, in order to meet or entertain our common foreign friends, we often bump into each other, not in twos and threes, but in a large group! Not to mention that, when we meet overseas friends at the airport or at the station, some of them are what we expect, and some arrive on the same plane and on the same train, but they are what other groups expect, and we don’t even realize it. Got it.This unexpected joy cannot be described in words.

An African friend saw me in this unexpected encounter.She held my hand and that of other foreign friends tightly, and said with a smile: "Beijing is such an incredible place! We have met all the people we never expected to meet in Beijing." Speaking of which, she He winked at me, "Of course these people don't include the imperialists and reactionaries!" Everyone who said that laughed. On the way home, I sat in the car and thought silently, I couldn’t help but be moved by the words “Beijing is really an incredible place!” and finally felt joy. Before liberation, Beijing was also a place where foreigners often came, but at that time the "comers" were mostly "unkind", they came to oppress, exploit, blackmail, and steal.Beijing's "unbelievable" lies in the fact that it has so many treasures and so many traitors that they can dictate and occupy it.Now, as the African friend said, the imperialists and reactionaries riding on our heads will no longer be among the guests we welcome.

The unbelievableness of Beijing today is actually sprouting from the unbelievableness of the past.It is precisely because the Chinese people were oppressed and bullied by the imperialists and reactionaries before liberation, and after liberation, they will double their understanding and sympathy for the people in Asia, Africa and Latin America who have suffered and are still suffering the same as we have suffered before. . We know how to love them, help them, unite them, and earnestly learn everything useful from them, thus winning the trust and cooperation of the oppressed people all over the world.Tad Siriouyomonsi, Speaker of the Burundian Parliament, said it well:

"China is not a self-interested country. China has not forgotten those Asian and African countries that have not yet achieved independence and self-determination because of its own victory. China supports and encourages these countries, which makes people all over the world happy." We thank the Speaker of the Burundi Parliament for the commendation he has given us.We will spur ourselves even more to be humble, prudent, guard against arrogance, and guard against impetuosity. We will always unite with all countries in the world that are invaded, controlled, interfered and bullied by US imperialism to form the broadest united front against US imperialism. .Do your best to oppose imperialism, defend world peace, and strive for the common cause of human progress!

(This article was originally published in "Beijing Evening News" on May 2, 1964.)