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negative teachers such as people like Eisenhower and Adenauer who can have a greateffect on him,” Mao stated. He then went on to argue, “In view of the situation of the pasttwo years, Khrushchev does have a tendency toward revisionism on major issues, but itcan’t be said that he is a complete revisionist on all issues; it’s hard to say his revisionismhas completely taken shape. But generally speaking, it can be said that he is a halfrevisionist.”107The imperialist “negative teachers,” Chinese leaders thus believed, might help theSoviet leadership realize how erroneous their policy of unprincipled appeasement andreconciliation with American imperialism was, and gradually come to accept China’sstance on the essence of imperialism and war and peace. In a 28 May telegram to theForeign Ministry, Huan Xiang, Chinese Chargé d'Affaires to Britain, provided a carefulanalysis of the international situation after the aborted Paris summit. Huan noted that“there is the possibility” of the Soviet Union “gradually changing.” Huan also warnedthat the West, afraid that the incident would “further strengthen the unity of the socialistcamp, especially the unity between China and the Soviet Union,” was “directing thespearhead of the Cold War at China,” and “intensifying [efforts to] undermine Sino-Soviet relations.” “Under such a situation,” Huan wrote, “we should deal very cautiouslywith the issues concerning Sino-Soviet relations.” 108 After adding a comment noting that“what this document said is very good,” Mao asked that copies be sent to participants inthe enlarged meeting of the Politburo of the CC CCP held in Shanghai 14 to 18 June107 Ibid., p. 272.108 “Dui Huan Xiang guanyu siguo shounao huiyi liuchan zhihou guoji xingshi de fenxi he zhanwang de piyu”(Comments on Huan Xiang’s Analysis and Forecast of the International Situation after the Abortion of the Four-PowerSummit), June 7, 1960, JMZW, vol. 9, pp. 200-20135