A Short History of China and Southeast Asia
8 Communism and the Cold War On 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and informed the worl ...
the PRC. In Indochina and Malaya, communist forces were pitted against colonial regimes in wars that would delay independence—an ...
What the Chinese took from Marxism–Leninism was what also appealed to many political activists and intellectuals in Southeast As ...
contribute according to their abilities and from which all would benefit according to their needs. This heady brothers-in-arms v ...
transition to socialism). The global struggle would be both relentless and prolonged, as imperialism (led by the United States) ...
Leninism’.^3 We should note in passing that neither equality nor indi- vidual rights were principles that figured significantly ...
revolutionary praxis also provided a superior model for others to emulate. What carried over from Confucian to communist China w ...
history, as elaborated by the great historians of the Han dynasty (Sima Qian and Ban Gu), conceived of it as a cyclical process. ...
communist parties were when they were still illegal, so historical experience adds to the paranoia. Enemies are all around, oper ...
over Radio Beijing as ‘running dogs of imperialism’. It seemed that Beijing was ready to back its strong words of support for re ...
struggles at the centre, particularly succession disputes, weakened the Burmese mandalaand left it open to intervention by its n ...
Chinese leaders were prepared to make a distinction between state-to- state and party-to-party relations in their pursuit of Chi ...
Only one of the ‘five principles’ (PANCASILA) to which all Indone- sians were expected to give assent referred to belief in God. ...
Part of the problem lay in the fact that the PRC had inherited the late Qing and Nationalist definition of nationality based on ...
Over the next three years, the MCP gradually shifted emphasis from military to political struggle. By then it had been confined ...
Indochina. The French presence on China’s southern border had, therefore, to be eliminated. Chinese recognition of the DRV effec ...
and viewed very differently: to re-establish the traditional status rel- ationship that had previously existed between the two c ...
and heavy mortars, thousands of tons of ammunition, not to mention food, medical supplies, military uniforms, vehicles and other ...
At Geneva, China’s own security needs took precedence over Vietnamese interests. In the global context of the Cold War, however, ...
to withdraw, and to allow a nationwide plebiscite to be held within two years. Five years of struggle had given the Vietminh hal ...
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