Global+Interdependence

Mao Zedong wanted to challenge the "Western World" of industry and agriculture and have the people of China work with the second Five-Year-Plan of Mao Zedong, the Great Leap Forward, which aimed at changing China from an agricutlure society to a modern civilization of industry and collaberation. The US claimed that communism will never work in China, even though it has been carried out for several decades by the Chinese. [] Mao also had relations with Japan and Thailand. The relations between China and Thailand were mainly focused on ideology, security, ethnicity, and trade. []