Mao Zedong's color photo. [Reprint]
ÒPhotoName: In Tiananmen
PhotoName: Memorial service
PhotoName: Old age time
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PhotoName: Work condition
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PhotoName: Bust
PhotoName: Plays the ping pong
PhotoName: Founding ceremony
PhotoName: Posters
Mao believed that "socialism is the only way out for China," because the United States and other Western countries would not allow China to join the ranks of advanced capitalism. As if to support this theory, the United States placed a trade embargo on China that lasted until Richard Nixon decided Mao had made himself a force to be reckoned with in dealing with the Soviet Union. Some people claim that while the Tigers obtained favorable trade terms from the United States, most Third World capitalist countries did not, and they saw nothing like the economic growth of the Tigers. The other side of this debate would argue that the disparity in per capita income between Taiwan and the mainland today demonstrates that Mao"s statement may have been a self-fullfilling proposition.
Reprint From: http://chairmanmaozedong.org