The Chinese People Cannot Be Cowed by the Atomic Bomb
#PUBLICATION NOTE
This edition of The Chinese People Cannot Be Cowed by the Atomic Bomb has been prepared and revised for digital publication by the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism under the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Switzerland on the basis of the edition published in the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, First English Edition, Volume 5, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1977.
#INTRODUCTION NOTE
These are the main points of a talk held by Comrade Mao Zedong with the first Finnish ambassador to China, Carl-Johan «Cay» Sundström, when he presented his credentials in Beijing, China on the 25th of January, 1955. It was published for the first time in the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, Volume 5, in 1977.
#Workers and oppressed people of the world, unite!
#THE CHINESE PEOPLE CANNOT BE COWED BY THE ATOMIC BOMB
#TALK WITH FINNISH AMBASSADOR TO CHINA CARL-JOHAN SUNDSTRÖM
#Mao Zedong
#25th of January, 1955
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China and Finland are friendly countries. Our relations are based on the «Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence».
China and Finland have never come into conflict. In the past, China's wars with European countries were only with Britain, France, Germany, Tsarist Russia, Italy, Austria, and the Netherlands; these countries all came from afar to commit aggressions against China, as in the invasions by the Anglo-French allied forces and by the allied forces of the eight powers, including the United States and Japan. 16 countries took part in the war of aggression against Korea, including Anatolia and Luxembourg. All these aggressor countries claimed to be peace-loving while branding Korea and China as aggressors.
Today, the danger of a world war and the threats to China come mainly from the warmongers in the United States. They have occupied our Taiwan and the Taiwan Straits and are contemplating a nuclear war. We have two principles: first, we don't want war; second, we will strike back resolutely if anyone invades us. This is what we teach the members of the Communist Party and the whole nation. The Chinese people are not to be cowed by US nuclear blackmail. Our country has a population of 600'000'000 and an area of 9'600'000 square kilometres. The United States cannot annihilate the Chinese nation with its small stack of atomic bombs. Even if the US atomic bombs were so powerful that, when dropped on China, they would make a hole right through the Earth, or even blow it up, that would hardly mean anything to the Universe as a whole, though it might be a major event for the Solar System.
We have an expression, millet plus rifles. In the case of the United States, it is planes plus the atomic bomb. However, if the United States with its planes plus the atomic bomb is to launch a war of aggression against China, then China with its millet plus rifles is sure to emerge the victor. The people of the whole world will support us. As a result of the First World War, the Tsar, the feudal lords, and the capitalists in Russia were wiped out; as a result of the Second World War, Jiang Jieshi and the feudal lords were overthrown in China and the Eastern European countries and a number of countries in Asia were liberated. Should the United States launch a Third World War, and supposing it lasted eight or ten years, the result would be the elimination of the ruling classes in the United States, Britain, and the other accomplice countries and the transformation of most of the world into countries led by Communist Parties. World wars end, not in favour of the warmongers, but in favour of the Communist Parties and the revolutionary people in all countries. If the warmongers are to make war, then they mustn't blame us for making revolution or engaging in «subversive activities», as they keep saying all the time. If they desist from war, they can survive a little longer on this Earth. But the sooner they make war, the sooner they will be wiped from the face of the Earth. Then, a People's United Nations would be set up, maybe in Shanghai, maybe somewhere in Europe, or it might be set up again in New York, provided the US warmongers had been wiped out.