own signs of having its Communist hard-line political structure crack under the strain of dissidence and inevitable change, China still remains under the stronghold of those older hard-liners. As we read, China was alienated by the U.s. choice to recognize the government on Taiwan as the official Chinese government (Part I, p. 1). It is unlikely, however, that China would have significantly altered its political or economic course in any case. After all, China had powerful conflicts with the Soviet Union although both nations largely shared political and economic ideologies. Also, considering the Cold War anti-communist mind-set of American leaders, the antagonistic American policy toward Communist China was inevitable.
China's government after 1949 ruled the nation politically with no deviation from a hard-line Communist standpoint. The same ideology ruled economic policy, beginning with vast land reform and class struggle (I; 2). Politically, in the 1950s, the Chinese Communist leadership began to develop a touch of more libera
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