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The McGill International Review
March 26, 2018
Chairman Mao passed in September of 1976, and following a lacklustre and short-lived continuation of his regime by Chairman Hua Guofeng, China was ushered into a new era of economic and political change. This era was spearheaded by Deng Xiaoping, who had experienced first hand the excesses ofÃâà...
TODAYonline
March 14, 2018
The story of Hua Guofeng may be instructive. After succeeding Mao in 1976, Hua took on the title of party chairman (a title not in use since), military chief and state premier. He lasted two years. Mr Xi is not Hua. He is far more powerful. But in the murky world of elite Chinese politics, the faux security blanketÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 8, 2018
Chinese Chairman Hua Guofeng had announced plans for a big leap in China's national production in the coming eight years. The plan intended to achieve annual growth rates of 4 to 5 per cent in agriculture and 10 per cent or more in industry. ○ A 79-year-old Hong Kong woman was reunited with herÃâà...
The Indian Express
March 6, 2018
Chinese Communist Party chairman and premier, Hua Guofeng has said that relations between India and China can be further improved if serious efforts are made on both sides. The people of India and China wanted improved relations, Hua said in a report on the government's work presented to China'sÃâà...
History News Network (HNN)
March 5, 2018
Those term limits—up to two consecutive five-year terms—have endured through the reigns of Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao. Xi knows better than most the turmoil that China went through under Mao and the perils of one-man rule and the signs of a determination to hold ontoÃâà...
The Indian Express
March 4, 2018
Chinese premier and party chairman, Hua Guofeng, was re-elected premier by the fifth National People's Congress. The party vice-chairman and defence minister, Marshal Ye Jianying, was elected chairman of the Congress, the source said. Marshal Ye, 80, was vice-chairman of the Fourth People'sÃâà...
Taiwan News
March 1, 2018
Initially, the proposal met with a neutral approach, with nobody daring to oppose or support it, apart from Deng, who used it against his rival, Hua Guofeng (華國鋒), but then forgot all about it once he was in charge, Bao said. Deng said a precedent by saying one thing and doing another, Zhao's formerÃâà...
South China Morning Post
February 28, 2018
Chinese Prime Minister Hua Guofeng reaffirmed the foreign policy set by Chairman Mao Zedong and said that China would continue its struggle against the superpowers, especially “Soviet social-imperialism”. In his National People's Congress report, Hua stressed that China must be “united with allÃâà...
Japan Today
February 28, 2018
When Deng Xiaoping emerged from the succession struggle that arose after Mao's death – eventually outmaneuvering Mao's handpicked successor Hua Guofeng - Deng built a political consensus to support his economic changes that emphasized the need for limits on time in office, as well as what hasÃâà...
The Japan Times
February 28, 2018
The propaganda machine has resurrected the term “lingxiu,” a Chinese word for leader that was once used for Mao (and his successor Hua Guofeng) and has been discredited as a result. And, perhaps most significant, “Xi Jinping Thought” has been incorporated into the CCP constitution, a move thatÃâà...
NBCNews.com
February 26, 2018
China's first three leaders after the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 all carried the title party chairman — Mao Zedong, Hua Guofeng and then Hu Yaobang. It has not been used since. "Argh, we're going to become North Korea". "Argh, we're going to become North Korea". "Whether Xi ends upÃâà...
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