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...Chinese, they were growing even more outspoken against Khrushchev; in Hong Kong the pro-Communist newspaper Ching Po found him even worse than Chiang Kaishek: "He decks himself out in satellites, spaceships and supernuclear bombs. He resorts to pinning the 'personality cult' label on the two leaders [Stalin and Hoxha], thereby subjecting himself to ridicule by the Western bloc...
...latter...because it is combined with democracy, and with a measure of personal liberty." Nonetheless, he did not shy from outspoken criticism of many American policies and beliefs. The United State, he argued, forced the Chinese to accept Communism by leaving them no other alternative to the "corrupt" Chiang Kai-shek. In addition, he roundly attacked McCarthyism on countless occasions...
...trying to defend the corrupt administration of the pre-war Chiang Kai-shek government that, to a great extent, was responsible for the Communist takeover of the China mainland. But if I had to choose between two evils, I would choose the lesser...
...China from their rightful seat in the U.N.'' He vilified the Nationalists on Formosa as "political outcasts" and "people who represent nobody." Sneered Zorin: "Take away the American forces on Taiwan [Formosa], put an end to the U.S. occupation of the island, and the clique of Chiang Kai-shek will not stay there another day. It will be wiped away by the hurricane of the people's wrath...
...China, insisted Zorin. "has the right to carry through the liquidation of the Chiang Kai-shek clique by peaceful means and with the use of armed force, and that is within its exclusive competence and nobody else's." In fact, Zorin harped so much on Peking's "right" to wage a shooting war that he plainly did his argument more harm than good, and some listeners began to wonder if Russia were really eager to have Red China seated. At any rate, Zorin's intemperate approach made the U.S.'s reply all the more convincing...