[48] People’s Daily, September 3, 1965. The article implied “China was the home base of world revolution.” On November 6, 1967, Lin Biao explicitly said that the goal was to build China as “a stronger home base for world revolution” during a speech. See Lin Biao, Remarks at the Capital Conference Commemorating the 50^th Anniversary of the October Revolution, November 6, 1967, People’s Daily, November 7, 1967.

[49] Report by the 11^th Meeting of the 8^th Chinese Communist Party Congress, People’s Daily, August 14, 1966.

[50] See Wang Li, Proletarian Dictatorship and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, The Red Flag, 1966, No.15; The Great Revolution in China and the Great Tragedy in the Soviet Union, People’s Daily, June 4, 1967. Lin Biao, Remarks at the Capital Conference Commemorating the 50^th Anniversary of the October Revolution. November 6, 1967, People’s Daily, November 7, 1967.

[51] Road to Revolution or Road to Capitalism? People’s Daily, August 15, 1967. Lin Biao, Remarks at the Capital Conference Commemorating the 50^th Anniversary of the October Revolution, November 6, 1967, People’s Daily.  November 7, 1967.

[52] Notice by the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, May 16, 1966, People’s Daily, May 17, 1966; and Road to Revolution or Road to Capitalism? People’s Daily, August 15, 1967.

[53] Mao Zedong, Comments on “A Complete Revolution”, September 9, 1966. Works of Mao Zedong Since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China, vol.12, pp.128-129.

[54] Unite, Proletarian Revolutionists Take Power over the Capitalist Authority, in People’s Daily, January 22, 1967.

[55] Yearbook of Zhou Enlai, 1949-1976, vol.2, p.177.

[56] Jin Zhong Ji, ed., The Life of Zhou Enlai, 1949-1976, Office of Central Archives Press, 1998, vol.2, p.963.

[57] Jin Zhong Ji ed., The Life of Zhou Enlai, 1949-1976, Office of Central Archives Press, 1998, vol.2, p.963.

[58] See Jin Zhong Ji, ed., The Life of Zhou Enlai 1949-1976. Office of Central Archives Press, 1998, vol.2, p.123. Hu Shi Yan, et.al., Chen Yi, Dang Dai Zhong Guo Chu Ban Press, 1991, p.608. Du Yi, Snow on Pine Trees Chen Yi in the Cultural Revolution, Shi Jie Zhi Shi Chu Ban She Press, 1997, pp.117-118.

[59] National Defense University Party History Office, ed., Reference material for Party History Education, vol.25, p.329.

[60] Yearbook of Zhou Enla, 1949-1976, vol.2, p.177.

[61] Yearbook of Zhou Enlai, 1949-1976, vol.2, pp.182-183. Also see Chen Yang Yong, Managing The Crisis: Zhou Enlai in 1967, Office of the Central Archives Press, 1999, pp.364-365.

[62] Yearbook of Zhou Enlai, 1949-1976, vol.2, p.194.

[63] Mao Zedong’s Instructions on External Affairs, March 1967 to March 1971, Reference Material for the Education in Party History, vol.26, pp.513-516.

[64] Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiao Ping, Kang Sheng and Le Duan, Nguyen Duy Trinh, Beijing, April 13, 1966; Zhou Enlai and Pham Van Dong, Hoang Tung, Beijing, August 23, 1966; Deng Xiao Ping and Le Duan, Beijing, September 29, 1975. Oddame Wested, Chen Jian, Stein Tonneson and Nguyen Vu Tung, eds., Seventy Seven Conversations between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, pp.96-101, 187-188.

[65] Deng Xiao Ping and Le Duan, September 29, 1975. See Oddarne Westad, Chen Jian, Stein Tonneson and Nguyen Vu Tung, eds., Seventy Seven Conversations between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, pp.187-188.

[66] Xia Yi Shan, Sixty Five Years of Soviet Foreign Relations, Shi Jie Zhi Shi Chu Ban She Press, 1987, p.9.

[67] Xia Yi Shan, Sixty Five Years of Soviet Foreign Relations, Shi Jie Zhi Shi Chu Ban She Press, 1987, p.18.

[68] Xia Yi Shan, Sixty Five Years of Soviet Foreign Relations, Shi Jie Zhi Shi Chu Ban She Press, 1987, p.25.

[69] Central Party school Research Institute, Major Events in Soviet Foreign Relations in the 1970s, 1985, pp.1-2. Also see Yearbook of Zhou Enlai, 1949-1976, vol.2, p.247.

[70] People’s Daily and The Red Flag, Denouncing the So Called Joint Action of the New Soviet Communist Leadership, November 11, 1965. With Whom Do Soviet Leaders Conduct the Joint Activities? in People’s Daily, February 2, 1966.

[71] People’s Daily, August 14, 1966.

[72] Central Party School Research Institute, Major Events in Soviet Foreign Relations in the 1970s, 1985, p.2; and Li Dan Hui, Chinese-Soviet Relations and China’s Assistance to Vietnam Against the United States, Chinese Communist Party History, 1998, no.6, p.8.

[73] Yearbook of Zhou Enlai, 1949-1976, vol.2, p.74. Zhou Enlai and Pham Van Dong, Beijing, April 10, 1967, in Oddarne Westad, Chen Jian, Stein Tonneson and Nguyen Vu Tung, eds., Seventy Seven Conversations between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, pp.103-105.

[74] Zhou Enlai and Pham Van Dong, Beijing, October 9, 1965; in Oddarne Westad, Chen Jian, Stein Tonneson and Nguyen Vu Tung, eds., Seventy Seven Conversanons between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, pp.92-93; and Zhou Enlai and Le Duan, Beijing, March 23, 1966, in Oddarne Westad, Chen Jian, Stein Tonneson and Nguyen Vu Tung, eds., Seventy Seven Conversations between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, pp.17.

[75] Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiao Ping, Kang Sheng, and Le Duan, Nguyen Duy Trinh, Beijing, April 13, 1966, in Oddarne Westad, Chen Jian, Stein Tonneson and Nguyen Vu Tung, eds., Seventy Seven Conversations between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, pp.98-100; Zhou Enlai, Kang Sheng and Pham Van Tong, Beijing, April 29, 1968, in Oddarne Westad, Chen Jian, Stein Tonneson and Nguyen Vu Tung, eds., Seventy Seven Conversations between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, p.129.

[76] The People of the World United, Help Vietnam Defeat American Invaders, in People’s Daily, March 25, 1965; Congratulatory Telegram From Mao Zedong to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on the Occasion of the 22 Anniversary of the Founding of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, September 1, 19678, in Mao Zedong’s Papers since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China, vol.12, pp.407-408.

[77] People’s Daily, March 25, 1965.

[78] People’s Daily, April 14, 1965.

[79] Yearbook of Zhou Enlai, 1949-1976, vol.2, p.143; Major Events in Zhou Enlai’s Diplomatic Activities, pp.451-452.

[80] Yearbook of Zhou Enlai, 1949-1976, vol.2, p.143; Major Events in Zhou Enlai’s Diplomatic Activities, p.510 and p.524; Selected Diplomatic Works of Zhou Enlai, pp.448-457.

[81] Shi Au Hong, United States Intervention in Vietnam and the Vietnam War, Shi Jie Zhi Shi Chu Ban She Press, 1993, pp.256-262.

[82] Major Events in Zhou Enlai’s Diplomatic Activities, p.524; Zhou Enlai and Pham Van Tong, Beijing, April 13, 1968, in Oddarne Westad, Chen Jian, Stein Tonneson and Nguyen Vu Tung, eds., Seventy Seven Conversations between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, pp.123-125; Zhou Enlai and Pham Van Tong, Beijing, April 19, 1968, in Oddarne Westad, Chen Jian, Stein Tonneson and Nguyen Vu Tung, eds., Seventy Seven Conversations between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, pp.125-128; Zhou Enlai and Pham Van Tong, Beijing, June 29, 1968, in Oddarne Westad, chen Jian, Stein Tonneson and Nguyen Vu Tung, eds., Seventy Seven Conversations between Chinese and foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, pp.135-136; and Chen Yi and Duo Tho, Beijing, October 17, 1968, in Oddarne Westad, Chen Jian, Stein Tonneson and Nguyen Vu Tung, eds., Seventy Seven Conversations between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina, pp.136-137.

[83] Zhou Enlai, Kang Sheng and Pham Van Tong, Beijing, April 29, 1968, in Oddarne Westad, Chen Jian, Stein Tonneson and Nguyen Vu Tung, eds., Seventy Seven Conversations between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina.