“The discord between China and the rest of the world reached its climax in 1976. Because of this, we even had to postpone the celebration of the bicentennial of American freedom. And in other countries, for the same reason, various undertakings became confused, mixed up and postponed indefinitely. The world suddenly woke up and immediately saw the danger threatening it, and yet for at least seventy years everything had been imperceptibly leading to this tragic denouement. The roots of the event, which has now excited the whole world, go back to the distant past, to 1904...”