UN General Assembly
1977

129. We will always bear in mind Chairman Mao's teaching that in our external work we should get rid of great-power chauvinism resolutely, thoroughly, wholly and completely We will never seek hegemony or be superpower. We will always stand by the oppressed people and nations throughout the world. On behalf of the Chinese Government, Vice-Premier Teng Hsiao-ping solemnly declared from this rostrum in April 1974: If one day China should change its [political] colour and turn into a super-Power, if it too, should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to its bullying, aggression and exploitation, then the people of the world should identify it as social imperialism, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it. Here, we the Chinese delegation, would like to reaffirm this stand.