The news that US president Nixon planned to visit China on July 15, 1971 shook the world as soon as it was broadcast.
It is because the US imperialists had proclaimed “Communist China” as their sworn enemy while favoring only Zhang Kaishi of Taiwan and carried out consistent anti-China campaign, but suddenly their head planned to visit Beijing.
The bourgeois media praised him as an “apostle of peace” and launched an excessive propaganda campaign commenting that Nixon’s visit to China was a policy shift from “cold war” to “peace”, from “confrontation” to “cooperation”.
The world was driven into political confusion.
Some people said that is the “arrival of thawing season” and “change of the era”, but some people cruelly criticized China saying it was conspiracy of China-US collusion against the Soviet. Some people kept arms folded.
At that time President Kim Il Sung said that a revolutionary should be able to change even an unavourable situation into favorable one.
Some days later, on August 6, 1971, Pyongyang held a mass rally welcoming a head of foreign state.
President Kim Il Sung made a speech at the rally clarifying the essence of Nixon’s visit to China.
He said that Nixon’s visit to China meant the final bankruptcy of the hostile policy against China by US imperialists who had consistently pursued for over 20 years to check the great revolutionary reform in China whose population is nearly one fourth of the world population and proved that the US imperialists finally kneeled down before anti-imperialist revolutionary forces of the world.
The President said that Nixon’s visit to Beijing is as same as raising the white flag like the US imperialists who had been defeated in the Korean War and come to Panmunjom with flag of truce.
He said that Nixon’s visit to China was not a victor’s march but a loser’s junket reflecting the destiny of the US imperialists who were doomed like the setting sun. He also said that it was a great victory of the Chinese people and the world revolutionary people.
His sayings were extraordinary ones that analyzed the changing political situation of the world and the cunning sophism of Nixon, the ringleader of the US imperialists who tried to escape from the condition in which they were isolated and rejected in every part of the world.
As a result, the US imperialists’ “victory” was in mire at a moment.
