Archive Report
Archive Report
Policy Changes in Post-Mao Era
China's Priorities at Home and Abroad
A century ago, the European powers were busy carving out economic spheres of influence in China. To ensure that China remained territorially intact and “open” to all outside interests, the United States, in 1899, asked the European governments to agree to an Open Door policy in China. The Chinese, who never forgot the humiliation they suffered at the hands of foreigners, now are beginning to open a few doors of their own. The leaders who came to power after Mao Tse-tung died on Sept. 9, 1976, seem determined to modernize China and bring it out of its relative isolation.
Mao's successor, Communist Party Chairman and Premier Hua Kuo-feng, has paid dutiful lip service to Maoist theory ...