ABSTRACT
Palmiro Togliatti then asked him: ‘But what would become of Italy as a result of such a war?’ Mao Zedong looked at him in a thoughtful way and replied, quite coolly: ‘But who told you that Italy must survive? Three hundred million Chinese will be left, and that will be enough for the human race to continue.’ . . . He talked a lot, but in an absolutely peremptory way: he did not really talk but insist.
