Excerpt From a Talk With Former US President Richard Nixon
#PUBLICATION NOTE
This edition of Excerpt From a Talk With Former US President Richard Nixon has been prepared and revised for digital publication by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism under the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Switzerland on the basis of the following editions:
- Chairman Mao Meets Former US President and Mrs. Nixon, in Beijing Review, Vol. 19, No. 9 (27th of February, 1976).
- Quotation in Political Report, in Documents of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1977.
#INTRODUCTION NOTE
This is an excerpt from a talk between Comrade Mao Zedong and former US President Richard Nixon in Beijing, China on the 23rd of February, 1976.
The notice of the New China News Agency reads:
Chairman Mao Zedong on the 23rd of February met with Richard M. Nixon, former President of the United States of America, Mrs. Nixon, and John V. Brennan, a member of his party.
At the meeting, Chairman Mao shook hands with the American guests, welcoming them to China, and had a friendly conversation with Mr. Nixon on a wide range of subjects. At the end of the conversation, Chairman Mao asked Mr. Nixon to convey his regards to President Gerald R. Ford upon returning home.
Present at the meeting and conversation were Hua Guofeng, Chinese Acting Premier; Qiao Guanhua, Foreign Minister; Huang Zhen, Chief of the Liaison Office of China in the United States; Wang Hairon, Deputy Foreign Minister; and Tang Wensheng and Zhang Hanzhi, Deputy Departmental Directors of the Foreign Ministry.
#Workers and oppressed people of the world, unite!
#EXCERPT FROM A TALK WITH FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON
#Mao Zedong
#23rd of February, 1976
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The United States wants to protect its interests in the world, and the Council Union wants to expand; this can in no way be changed. In the era in which classes exist, war is an interval between one peace and another. War is a continuation of politics, that is to say, a continuation of peace. Peace itself is politics.