UN General Assembly
1969

little over 2 per cent—are Communists. Now, even this tiny minority is torn by factional strife. The overwhelming majority of the Chinese people are anti-Mao and anti-Communist. Twenty years of regimentation and brain-washing, 20 years of torture and terror, have failed to make them accept the Communist regime as anything but a transient tyranny. They have never ceased to thirst for freedom and to struggle against their oppressors. They continue to hold dear the values of Chinese cultural heritage which Mao Tse-tung and his gang have tried so hard to eradicate. Only after the overthrow of the Communist regime can the Chinese people make full use of their cultural heritage to contribute to the cause of world peace. 66. The Chinese people are determined to be the master of their own destiny. It is not too fantastic to believe that the Communist regime will in time be swept away an remembered only as a nightmarish episode in the history of modern China. Today the regime is no longer in effective control over a large part of the Chinese mainland. Certainly