Cleaning the house before inviting guests

Cleaning the house before inviting guests (Chinese: 打扫干净屋子再请客) was one of the three major foreign policy policies of the People's Republic of China in the early days of its founding, with the other two being Leaning to One Side and Making a fresh start.[1] It was proposed by Mao Zedong at the second plenary session of the 7th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in March 1949 after the victory of the three major campaigns. It meant that China would seek to "clean up" colonial influences before it sought recognition from states that it deemed as Western imperialists.[2]: 51 

Definition

Cleaning the house before inviting guests meant that China would first eliminate the remaining forces and privileges of imperialism in China and all unequal treaties before considering the issue of establishing diplomatic relations with Western countries.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ Li, Jiulin (June 2006). 毛泽东在建国后国际战略思想 [Mao Zedong's International Strategic Thought after the Founding of the People's Republic of China]. Beijing: Beijing: Beijing Publishing House. p. 44. ISBN 7-200-06412-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  2. ↑ Meng, Wenting (2024). Developmental Piece: Theorizing China's Approach to International Peacebuilding. Ibidem. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9783838219073.
  3. ↑ Qi, Jialin (April 2014). 大陆台湾一百年 [One hundred years of mainland China and Taiwan]. Haikou: Hainan Publishing House. p. 73. ISBN 978-7-5443-4220-9.
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