UN General Assembly
1957

65. More than 80 per cent of my people are farmers. The communist programme of forced industrialization has imposed on the farming class a burden much bigger than they can possibly bear. Collectivization of agriculture and government monopoly of trade in all foodstuffs have introduced inefficiency, bureaucratism and corruption into the management of the main livelihood of the Chinese people. Throughout the hinterland of China, million of my people are actually dying for lack of food. This man-made famine has driven my people to desperation and starvation. That is why the communist regime has long been hated and detested by the vast majority of the people. 66. I was a representative at the founding meeting of the United Nations at San Francisco. This time I return to the United Nations after an absence of twelve years. I must confess that it pains me to see this Assembly waste so many precious hours on the question of so-called "Chinese representation”.