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...name Teng Hsiao-p'ing, Chou's hand-picked First Vice Premier, as his successor. Most surprisingly, the Chinese leadership last week passed over Teng and appointed a relative unknown as Acting Premier, pending eventual approval by the rubber stamp National People's Congress. He is Hua Kuo-feng, 56, Minister of Public Security and No. 6-ranking Vice Premier (among the twelve...
...Enemies. Hua may have emerged as a compromise choice in part because his very lack of visibility made him a man with few enemies. Affable and softspoken, with a thick Hunanese accent, Hua is described by foreign visitors as politically adroit and nondoctrinaire. It helped that he comes from Mao's native province of Hunan, where he spent most of his career as a high regional party official and became an expert in agriculture, which is the backbone of China's economy. Significantly, he went to Peking just after former Defense Minister Lin Piao tried to overthrow...
Benjamin I. Schwartz, Williams Professor of History and Political Science, said that although he was surprised at the appointment of a relatively unknown figure, he was "not completely surprised that Teng wasn't appointed," adding that by appointing a "sufficiently neutral" Hua in a 'great deal of resistance to Teng becoming the premier, Chairman Mao seems to have given some support to the left...
...Although Hua is not a leftist, he was more acceptable to the leftists than Teng," Schwartz said...
John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor of History, said yesterday that he expects Hua to be only a temporary premier but that he does not expect Teng to be named premier either