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...leadership had difficulty agreeing during several Politburo meetings in Peking. Any Premier has to be acceptable to a diversity of factions, including the military, the governing bureaucracy, the leftist leaders in the Politburo, and, of course, Chairman Mao. Teng, as a chief victim of the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69, was obviously not the favorite candidate of the left, though he evidently had the support of most other factions. Last week's decision indicates that the radicals, usually thought to be led by Mao's wife Chiang Ch'ing, had enough strength to block his expected promotion...
...Mao understood this when he made his remark about Go, for the time Japan was militarily at China's throat...
China announced Hua's appointment on February 7, approximately one month after the death of Premier Chou En-lai, who had generally been regarded as the number-two man in the Chinese hierarchy behind Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
Terrill said appointment of Hua over Teng seems to indicate that Chairman Mao Tse-tung is still very much in power and that China is not going back to the leftist principles of the cultural revolution, because Hua does not represent those principles. "Hau is a front runner for the premiership," he added...
...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...