Hey everyone, me again, Lhasla Montgomery, coming to you as usual from the China History Podcast.com.

After getting bogged down in all the drama, tragedy, acts of revenge, and vengeance of 1966 to 1969, were finally into calmer

but nonetheless very treacherous waters in 1970.

As we begin part 7 of this overview of the Cultural Revolution, we see Mao kind of coming

to his senses.

He's admitting, well, not openly admitting of course, but in his to his

actions and actions and the directions he gave Jo-Enly,

he's telling the Premier to go all out on damage control and to try and get the state apparatus patched up.

Mao's now looking to start, well, patching things up with his key comrades who had gotten burned and inconvenienced from Mao's red guards.

Mao sat on his hands and let most of them all get roughed up and degraded.

Leo Shauchi died. Most of them all get roughed up and degraded.

Leo Shaqi died.

Lulre Ching, we remember, tried to jump off his roof and kill himself.

And a lot of things like this happened.

So now Mao is starting to reach out to those who survived

and carefully bring them back into the fold. And most important of all, Mao will reach out to the four marshals, Shushiang Chen,

Yajan Ying, Niarong, Jun and Chen Yi, four guys he knew he could trust and he's going to ask them, who is China's real threat?

And they will recommend to Mao that he reach out to the United States because in their

opinion, based on what they saw in 1969, 1970, the USSR was China's biggest threat.

And a new US-China relationship will be a huge game changer for China as far as China's

political relationship with the Soviet Union, not to mention the whole world.

This whole idea that Mao had, you know, to start talking to the Americans and

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