Word: piao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most observers, to the more likely possibility of disagreement over an impending meeting of the National Peoples' Congress. Nothing could be held wholly impossible. But most China-watching experts focused their attention on the fate of Mao's heir-designate, Defense Minister and Vice Chairman Lin Piao...
...about Lin's status has been mounting since Sept. 11 when the New China News Agency announced, with great fanfare, that it was going to distribute a series of color pictures on the career of Mao. The announcement contained unusual emphasis on the ties between Mao and Lin Piao, eulogizing the Vice Chairman as "the brilliant example for the whole party, the whole army, and the people all over the country." After such a buildup, it was strange indeed that the release of the pictures was delayed for almost ten days...
...Brookings Institution, the scholars who have consulted with the Government's China watchers have become nearly unanimous in depicting China as a relatively defensive, inward-looking, less-than-bellicose land. Says Halperin: "There was an enormous change from the time McNamara and Rusk were quoting Lin Piao as the new Mein Kampf to the time Nixon and Kissinger came...
...spot in the party hierarchy by 1967, when the Red Guard rampages reached their peak. ∙ Four years and several purges later, the Politburo's key committee has been whittled down to just three men: Mao Tse-tung, who heads the party; Defense Minister Lin Piao, No. 2 in the party and Mao's designated heir; and Premier Chou. Because China's presidency is vacant-no successor has been named for Liu Shao-chi, angrily deposed by Mao as a "revisionist" in 1967-Chou is the top man in the Chinese government, and the man with whom...
Pleasing Prospect. It has not been lost on Defense Minister Lin Piao and the other moderates who run China these days that the Chinese economy moves ahead only when Maoism, with its disruptive emphasis on "struggle" and its relative indifference to rates of production, is throttled. Last year China harvested a record 240 million tons of grain; many more such crops will be needed if Peking is ever to feed its population (which is still growing at 2% a year) and industrialize as well. Thus the prospect is for an extended pause in the effort to remake the Chinese mind...