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...radical clique centering around Mao's wife Chiang Ching; perhaps by exploiting the dissatisfactions of youth, this group can in time make another serious bid for power. These potential frictions will probably not develop until Mao passes from the scene. Says Boston University China Scholar Merle Goldman: "Just as Chou's power came ultimately from Mao, so does Teng...
Eventually a plenary session of the National People's Congress will have to be held to designate Teng the new Premier. Similarly, there will have to be a Politburo meeting to elect party Vice Chairmen to replace both Chou and another top leader, Rang Sheng, who died one month ago. A strong candidate is Chang Chun-chiao, 63, the onetime Shanghai radical, who has decided to cooperate with the moderates...
Teng has more enemies than Chou ever had. Many party veterans recall that in the mid-1950s, Teng rose to power by in effect stepping over the dead body of the pro-Soviet Kao Kang, who was then a key member of the Politburo and supreme ruler of the provinces in Manchuria. Kao reportedly committed suicide in a Peking prison after Teng's brutal denunciation of him at a 1955 Central Committee plenum. But if Teng is worried about any long knives, he has not shown it. He is even indulging his old epicurean tastes. Just recently his favorite Szechuanese...
Henry Kissinger once called him "the greatest statesman of our era." Indeed, few men in the 20th century did more than Chou En-lai to forge the Chinese revolution and to change the shape of international politics. Chou was for a quarter-century the overseer of China's vast governing bureaucracy. As the chief architect of China's foreign policy under Chairman Mao Tse-tung, he charted Peking's course of independence from the two superpowers, creating in the process a new world center of power and influence. Suave, shrewd and enduring, he advanced the cause of China with Metternichian...
Among the dedicated and often fanatical men who led the Chinese Communist Party, Chou was unique. Mao, though a poet and an intellectual, was also a soldier who had much in common with the rough, parochial peasant comrades who forged the revolution. By contrast, Chou was silkenly urbane, almost a throwback to the old Mandarin bureaucrats of imperial China. His courtly manners and experience in the ways of the world made him, outside China, a symbol of Oriental patience and guile. U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger was not the only Western diplomat who, after a treasured cup of tea with...