p G. Apalin

p In charting and substantiating their policy on the international scene the Maoists attach special importance to ideological factors. Practically every major foreign policy action of the Maoists has been given an ideological slant in advance or subsequently.

p The very substance of the Maoists’ foreign policy strategy— the establishment of China’s political supremacy in the world—explains the growing role played by ideology in the international activity of the Chinese leaders. It should be noted that the nationalistic, Great-Power policy of the Mao group with its hypocrisy, blackmail and interference in the internal affairs of other countries is taking shape in a period witnessing the political maturing of the present-day revolutionary forces. The Maoists, who are acting in the name of petty-bourgeois revolutionism, therefore use “ultra-Left”, “ultra-revolutionary” slogans to disguise their policy and its real aims and methods. On the other hand, they are hoping that their efforts to indoctrinate the masses in foreign countries ideologically will help to swing the development of international relations in their favour and bring it in line with the "thought of Mao Tse-tung”.

Their ideological concepts in foreign policy also have a domestic designation, the aim being to justify, in the eyes of the Chinese people, their frontal assault on socialism in China and their departure from the principles of internationalism, kindle nationalistic, chauvinistic sentiments among ihe people and thereby create the ideological and political conditions in which to prepare and embark on new and still more dangerous foreign policy adventures.