Capitalism Comes to Maos Mausoleum : An Indian Goes Around the World - I
Lin never made it: Aware of unleashing a chaos that he was no longer able to control, and fearful of Soviet invasion, Mao turned to the United States. In February , after years of careful diplomacy, U.
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President Richard Nixon arrived in Beijing to meet with Mao in person. And yet, in the end, he was disappointed. After losing Nixon to Watergate something Mao never did understand , he was left with Henry Kissinger. The problem, Mao thought, was that Kissinger was trying to play the China card in courting the Soviet Union. Mao felt that it was all too similar to Munich: The result, he feared, would be war.
As he approached death, Mao was worried. His many revolutions failed. His efforts to build up a relationship of equals with the United States delivered much less than he expected.
Instead, the new generation of the Chinese leaders set out to repair the misery that that the Chairman had inflicted on his country during his lengthy reign. In his crystal casket in Tiananmen Square, Mao remained oblivious to the changes around him as China embraced capitalism with gusto.
Only with the rise of Xi Jinping in was this caution cast overboard. Like Mao, Xi dreams big: The most important lesson I learned is that people are people, no matter what region or religion they belong to or what political system they live under.
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They open up to you if you approach them with an open mind. I did not begin pursuing my passion for travel with a view to writing a book about it. The excitement I felt, the knowledge I gained, and the friendships I built with peoples from vastly different cultures around the world have been rewards enough for me. The book materialized as an afterthought.
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Some of my friends, to whom I used to send emails narrating my experience and sharing my excitement, responded with gratitude and kept asking for more. Why not concentrate on this field? Why waste your time belaboring with political stuff? A vast collection of stories from different countries. Gives a vivid description of most of the places that the author visited.
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