Five years before his great
Communist Revolution in 1949, Mao Zedong sent this secret message to
Washington: 'China must industrialize,', wrote Mao. 'This
can only be done by free enterprise. Chinese and American interests
fit together, economically and politically. America need not fear
that we will not be co-operative. We cannot risk crossing America. We
cannot risk any conflict.'
Mao received no reply. Nothing has
changed.
Mao was looking to be a friend of
the US from the beginning. He said 'I will go meet Franklin
Roosevelt in the White House.' Mao reaches out 1950 to Harry
Truman, he reaches out to Dwight Eisenhower. They all refused
cooperation.
This opportunity that might have
changed history, prevented wars, save countless lives, was lost
because the truth of these overtures was denied in Washington of the
1950s.
State department officials who had
carried Mao's messages were condemned unjustly as Communist traitors.
Everybody who knew Mao, who spoke Chinese, was gone. In the 1950s the
State Department had no employees who spoke Chinese.
It's resulted of the US not having
relations with the most populous country in the world.
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