UN General Assembly
1956

177. Since the countries of southern Asia had failed to stop the expansion of Western Europe on their shores in former countries, we in China had eventually to meet the same threat in the nineteenth century. In time, if China should fail to regain its entire freedom and to rid the mainland of Soviet imperialism, those countries of Asia and Africa which are geographically more distant from the Soviet Union will yet suffer. Our struggle is immediately for Chinese freedom. In the long run, our struggle is also for Asian and African freedom.