in an interview by american foreign service diplomat John S. Service Mao Zedong said:

"Cooperation between America and the Chinese Communist Party will be beneficial and satisfactory to all concerned. . .

China must industrialize. This can be done—in China—only by free enterprise and with the aid of foreign capital. Chinese and American interests are correlated and similar. They fit together, economically and politically. We can and must work together. . .

We will not be afraid of democratic American influence—we will welcome it. . ."

My professor showed this quote and asked how best to read this man. Was he a pragmatist or communist ideologue merely lying to get aid? and then he said "Afterall Mao was a communist.. and communists are quite capable of lying, unlike capitalists, who never lie."