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“...Only from this angle could you understand the rationale of the Cultural Revolution. Mao wanted to groom purely localized Chinese cadres, to replace the former overseas students who returned from the Soviet Union and the veteran Communist Party cadres groomed by the Soviet Union, so that he can achieve complete security and a true dictatorship. As a shrewd politician, he was certainly right to have such a plan. Although of course it meant scourge for China all over again such things as national interest are never a consideration for politicians who are eager for quick success...”
This episode includes excerpts from an interview with William Liu, which took place on May 2, 2021. The full-length video with subtitles of this interview (all in Mandarin Chinese) was exclusively released at https://www.lzjscript.com/archives/7056. The free version (first half of the video with subtitles) can be found at https://youtu.be/4FDH6k2cTuc.
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“...This war was completely tilted to one side. There was almost no doubt as to the outcome. As soon as Chiang exhausted within one or two years the military resources he accumulated in the latter part of the Anti-Japanese War, the war was over. And the industrial zone in the northeast would be able to continue to produce. If the Northeast had been an independent country like Manchuria, it would have no difficulty to beat a big country like China, just as it would be no problem for Israel to defeat a big country like Egypt. One was a small industrialized country and the other a large agricultural country without industrialization. The large agricultural country had only scattered and disorganized peasants...”
"If we look at the entire matter from Japan’s standpoint, Japan had actually gone too far. If it had been satisfied with attacking China and the Soviet Union only, just as Israel now only hits the Arabs, it would not have been opposed by Britain and the United States. If it had withdrawn from mainland China at an appropriate time, and used the Northeast as its base to firmly resist the Chinese Communists and the subversive forces of the Soviet Union, it may even have been rewarded by Britain and America. It would have been even possible that after decades of persistence, when the Cold War broke out, Japan would have become the main ally of Britain and the United States in the Far East, just like Franco’s Spain, and Manchuria may even be recognized by Britain and the United States, just like South Korea now, entirely probably to become the power engine of East Asian economy. Japan’s lack of prudence in diplomacy cost it its best opportunity and gave away the entire Asian continent to the Soviets."
"...That is, the intelligence arms of both the communist and the nationalist parties were single-handedly built by Li (Kenong), an underground agent of the Communist Party...This gives you an insight into the true nature of the relations between the two parties. You will no longer be fooled by the propaganda narratives about the strife between the Nationalist and the Communist Parties. To put it in plain words, the Nationalist Party and the Communist Party were the current Lebanon and Hezbollah..."
Season 1 was translated from an invited talk given by William Liu in Guangzhou, March 2015.
“...The Communist International raised the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party by feeding them with flesh cut off from its own body. The excruciating pain of this sacrifice can only be compared with China's aid to Vietnam in the 1960s.”
Season 1 was translated from an invited talk given by William Liu in Guangzhou, March 2015.
“First we witnessed the revolutionary diplomacy of Leon Trotsky. Revolutionary diplomacy was the essence of the Soviet Union determined by the very nature of the Soviet Union. Therefore, it was not a matter of techniques. As long as the Soviet Union itself existed, the revolutionary nature of its diplomacy couldn’t be altered.”
Season 1 was translated from an invited talk given by William Liu in Guangzhou, March 2015.
"...The USSR adopted what we now call unrestricted warfare to oppose the international order. As a result, the right-wing forces in Europe, such as the German Army Corps or Kapp Putsch, also resorted to the means of unrestricted warfare to counter the Soviet Union. In other words, if you are without scruples I shall also be ruthless. Only after Leninism came fascism; after fascism, Nazism; after Nazism and Soviet operations in the third world, came Islamic extremism and then the Chinese revolution. "
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