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...visit to Peking used to be an airport greeting by Premier Chou En-lai and the "cordial conversation" with Chairman Mao Tse-tung. Now there is a third. In recent weeks, ranking visitors from Rumania and North Korea have met not only Mao and Chou but also General Huang Yung-sheng, 64, Chief of Staff of China's People's Liberation Army. Last week when the heads of state of South Yemen and the Sudan came to town, Huang acted as co-host with Chou, who has accorded the general a rare compliment. Said Chou...
Chou should know. In a country where Mao once said that "the gun must never be allowed to command the party," the army has, in fact, taken almost complete control. China watchers in Hong Kong reckon Huang now to be the second most powerful military man in China, after Defense Minister Lin Piao, who is Mao's heir apparent...
Peking Pentagon. Huang's own career reflects the rise of the military in the wake of the catastrophic Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. When Mao launched the revolution in 1966, he hoped to smash the old order and build a new society that would rest partly on the army, partly on a reinvigorated party, and partly on a new generation of Maoist youth. But the rampaging Red Guards left China in such a shambles that Mao was forced to call in the troops, not only to restore order but also to administer the country. Now the army shows no readiness...
...army's rise to power is largely a result of the keen ambition of Lin Piao. The longtime defense chief knows full well that his chances of succeeding Mao some day depend on close ties with the army commanders in the provinces. It became Huang's task, when Lin promoted him to Chief of Staff 15 months ago, to strengthen those ties. Along the way, Huang has been making some ties of his own. To sidestep the aging marshals in the Peking Pentagon known as the Military Affairs Commission, Huang set up a small administrative office, from which...
...Huang was one of the original 400 revolutionaries who survived Mao's abortive 1927 "Autumn Harvest Uprising" and fled with him into the Ching-kang mountains to form the nucleus of the Red Army in China. During years of Japanese invasion and civil war. Huang often served under Lin. As commander of the Canton military region in the turbulent summer of 1967. Huang was one of the first army men to speak out against the excesses of the Cultural Revolution. He openly supported the conservatives, declaring that "from now on, we must have a clear-cut attitude. We cannot...