Word: politburo
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China region (wealthy, industrial Manchuria), the only civilian regional boss, member of the Politburo and since January director of China's lagging Five-Year Plan. A fast riser, he is now considered to be riding for a fall...
General Peng Te-huai, chairman of the Northwest China region (China's Wild West), No. 2 army general (after Chu Teh), former commander of the Chinese army in Korea and member of the Politburo...
...Premier and Foreign Minister of the Chinese People's Republic, member of the Politburo and Central Committee, veteran of the long intrigue and the Long March, trusted confidant of the Kremlin-spoke at Geneva as one of the masters of a seventh of the world's land surface, a fourth of its people...
...Shao-chi, about 50, vice chairman of the Politburo, secretary of the Central Committee. Little known but very powerful. Close to Mao, and said by some to be the heir apparent. Theorist and dogmatist of the party and, like Stalin and Malenkov in Russia, the one who controls its elaborate apparatus. He was practically unknown outside the party a decade ago; his first book, How to Be a Good Communist, introduced him in 1939 as a prime dialectician. Married: twice (first wife killed by Kuomintang troops in 1934). Children: a son and daughter of whom it has been said that...
...tung, 61. chairman of the Politburo, the Central Committee, the Government and Military Council-in short, the dictator. The son of a well-to-do peasant, he attended the founding meeting of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. tirelessly organized China's peasants while others concentrated mistakenly on workers in the cities, ultimately forged the great peasant army and tailored the dogma which carried Communism to triumph in China. He had the opportunism to capitalize on Japan's aggression: "Our determined policy is 70% self-development, 20% compromise and 10% fight the Japanese." He had the ruthlessness...