UN General Assembly
1966

indigenous Communists and their allies to do the job for them. But the encouragement, training, financing and equipping of guerrillas can be more of a menace to the independence and freedom of the small and weak nations than even open and undisguised aggression. The fact that Peiping has failed more often than it has succeeded is no cause for complacency. The war in Viet-Nam, to which I have already referred, is a case in point. In the eyes of the Chinese Communists, the war in Viet-Nam is a test case for the “people’s war”. If it can succeed in Viet-Nam, it can also succeed in other countries. Indeed, this is what the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party had in mind when it said in a recent communique that “the people of other parts of the world will see that what the Viet-Namese people can do they can do, too”.