The distorted truth and facts by the West about China's 'Great Leap Forward' 1958-1962. China did not start the Great Leap Forward out of thin air. Unfavourable negative and toxic circumstances were foisted on China by both Russia and the West headed by the United States.
To understand the Great Leap Forward it is necessary to go back to the background history of the founding of the Republic of China in 1911. In the 1910s to early 1920s Dr. Sun Yat Sen the president of the Republic of China asked the Western countries, Japan and Russia for loans to finance China's national development. Their response was not only negative but blunt, clear and insulting. They stated that they have nothing to gain from a strong united China but would in fact lose priviledges and the exrtra-territorial rights. Thus to them it is best to keep China forever disunited and weak so that they could continue to exploit and plunder China's resources freely as a servile semicolonial entity. So the West, the United States, Russia and Japan share a common denominator and interest in keeping China poor and weak. This policy was to continue after the end of the Second World War.
The United States and Russia already had planned to launch the Korean war behind the scene at the end of the Second World War in 1945. Both wanted the Korean War for their own diabolical reasons. The United States hope to establish a USA protege and foothold in Korea as a jumping board to invade China so as to get rid of the communist state of the People's Republic of China. Russia planned stealthily to get China involved in the Korean War so that a weaken China will not be able to claim back millions of square miles of Chinese territories which Russia occupied illegally through deception and subterfuge from 1858 to 1860s at the height of England and France aggression and invasion of China.
To lure and get the People's Republic of China to enter the Korean War Russia plodded China to send in the Chinese soldiers and armies while promised that Russia would be responsible for providing airforce covers and weaponeries like tanks, cannons, guns and amunitions at Russia's expense.
After the Korean War Russia reneged on payment of all the hardwares but sent in the bills to China for payment even to the last bullet. This was treason and treacherous. China would have to pay back Russia for hundreds of millions of dollars.
To make these payments to Russia the Chinese people had to tighten their stomach for many years. Therefore Chinese agricultural products and dairy products like beef, pork, chickens and milk must be given to Russia in lieu of cash payments. These went on to impoverish China tremendously.
Simultaneously at this time the West headed by the United States tightened its economic and naval blockade of China. China's shortage of food for her people was curtailed by Russia's oppressive and suppressive policy. China could not trade freely with many countries because of USA blockade and thus could not import all the important products like oil, metal, steel, copper and minerals vital for national development. Hence the important need to innovate and produce all the necessary products per home grown industries in all fields of economic activities. Backyard furnaces sprang up all over China to make steel from scrap metals for manufacturing arms and tanks and military trucks. Also for some years after the Korean War USA had been carrying out sporadic bombing of China in the East Coast and in Southern China's Yunnan province. Thus it was Russia's treason and USA aggression and nuclear blackmail on China in 1955 and 1958 that was consequential for China to initiate the necessity of the "Great Leap Forward" to safeguard China. China was again at the critical moment and the "Great Leap Forward" was a rush job with full of inexperience and mistakes. However the Great Leap Forward spearhead the dynamic Chinese Dragon Spirit to rise to the occasion to safeguard the survival of the Chinese sovereign nation and the Chinese civilization.
The United States has not given up its intention to contain and destroy the People's Republic of China. Chairman Mao and his fellow comrade in arms leaders as well as many prominent Chinese scientists and engineers in both the nuclear arms and rockets cum missiles field realised the urgency for China to speed up the development of nuclear bombs and the rockets and missiles to carry them. As this was part of the Great Leap Forward programme China successfully tested its first atom bomb on 16th October, 1964 and its first hydrogen bomb on 28th December, 1966. Simultaneously China succeeded in manufacturing rockets and missiles capable of carrying the nuclear bombs. Thus the success of the nuclear and the rockets and missiles programme went a long way to safeguard China's sovereignty and to maintain the Chinese people's self-respect, honour and dignity. Henceforth the evil United States and its barbaric Western allies and Japan have to think twice if they still think they can travertise with China and the Chinese people.
From the perspective of China's ability to successfully manufacturing nuclear bombs, rockets and missiles, the Great Leap Forward programme thus cannot be viewed as a failure for that programme laid the basis and foundation for China's continuous scientific and technological development and advancement for now and for years to come.
The Great Leap Forward was a worthy premium paid by the Chinese people for the rejuvenation of the glory of the Chinese nation and civilization. Ironically Russia's treason and USA aggression and nuclear blackmail to put down China had the opposite effect of strengthening and uplifting China in her innovative Great Leap Forward programme. From then on China was determined to be self reliant in all aspects of Chinese national endeavours and not dependent on second or third parties.
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Saturday,17th October, 2026.
5 comments:
Deng Xiao Ping said to go ahead in progress to success the Chinese people must assume they have to cross the stream or river by testing or feeling every stone or pebble in the stream before being able to cross the stream or river successsively. Thus Deng Xiao Ping's thought really reflects Mao Tse-Tung's Great Leap Forward strategy of achieving economic and industrial success by trial and error and refused to bow to Russia and USA and the West of wanting to hamstrung China's progress and development.
In fact Deng Xiao Ping had learnt a useful lesson from the 'Great Leap Forward' to avoid pitfalls that might disrupt China's progress and development.
Yang Feng Long : Taiwan , Taipeh
The saying that necessity is the mother of invention as applied to China cannot be overlooked when judging the progress that China has made. All the while, such progress has been propagandized as just copying the West, no credit given to China's innovation and doggedness to overcome its weaknesses. The USA conveniently has forgotten that it was paying citizens to steal technology from the Europeans themselves in the past.
In this era of China holding the most patents for inventions is testimony to China's massive step forward to becoming a very strong country. But the mantra is still promoted that China is copying or stealing Western technology. China's Tiangong Space Station is an example of why the mantra promoted by the West holds no water. Nothing was ever stolen from the USA or the West in building the Tiangong Space Station. It was perhaps a blessing in disguise that China was never allowed to set foot on the International Space Station, so stealing technology was impossible and propaganda promotion ended against a wall. In fact, on many fronts, the USA and the West are copying China. The only fact is that they will never admit the reality.
The 'Great Leap Forward also serves as a reference point for Jiang Zemein, Hu Jintao and Xi Jin Ping to navigate the economic and political minefields with great care and concern in order for China to progress and develop to immense glorious success today.
Chai Siu Mei : Penang
Up to now the People's Republic of China was very blessed with great noble leaders. The first echelon leaders led by Mao Tse-tung had laid the foundation and subsequent leaders from Deng Hsiao Ping to Xi Jinping have built on that foundation and so China and the Chinese peole at last have achieved The glrious Great Leap Forward for China.
Mong Lai : Bangkok, Thailand
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