Winning the Third World

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The starting points of Sino-American contention in the Third World can be followed to the idea and activities of two men toward the finish of World War I: Woodrow Wilson and Mao Zedong. In 1919, Wilson was at the focal point of world consideration while Mao couldn’t have been further from it. The American president drove a relatively youthful country that was rich and ground-breaking enough to try to world initiative. The quarter-century-old Chinese progressive, on the other hand, was an obscure figure in a generally old country that was too feeble to even consider preventing itself from being split and mortified by the supreme forces. Notwithstanding the obvious contrasts between the two men in riches, acclaim, and influence, they were not totally unalike. Both were visionaries who saw the world not as it was yet as it ought to be.