this claim in a speech before a Conference of Asian and Australasiqn
Trade Unions in Peiping in which for the first time
the "road of Mao Tse-tung" was proclaimed to be the revolutionary
model for other Asian Communists to follow. Two years
later, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Chinese
Communist Party, this claim was reiterated in speeches hailing
the Chinese revolution as "the classic type of revolution
in colonial and semi-colonial countries .