China Abandons Strategy Of Persuasion And Compromise – OpEd

By Vijay Gokhale*

If U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt believed that if you “speak softly and carry a big stick: you will go far”, half a century later and many thousands of miles away, another man practised it. His name was Zhou Enlai.

If Mao Zedong represented the crude face of Chinese communism, then Zhou was the...