"I like rightists... I am comparatively happy when these people on the right come into power."
— Mao Zedong

January 1, 1970

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Anti-fascistsPoets from ChinaGeneral Secretaries and Chairmen of the Communist Party of ChinaAnti-imperialistsNon-fiction authors from China
Original Language: English

Sources

Excerpt of meeting with Nixon 1972, quoted in The Road to War: Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed (May 9, 2013) by Marvin Kalb. Also quoted in Declassified transcript of Mao Zedong meets Richard Nixon, February 21, 1972