Zhou Enlai, born on this day in 1898, was a communist revolutionary, statesman, and military officer who served as the 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976. "All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means."
Zhou was educated in a missionary college in Tianjin before studying at a Japanese university. In Tianjin, he met his future wife, Deng Yingchao while participating in a radical political group known as the "Awakening Society". In 1920, Zhou moved to France, where he helped form the overseas branch of the Communist Party of China. He also lived in Britain and Germany before returning to China in 1924.
While working in the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, Zhou was also made the secretary of the Communist Party of Guangdong-Guangxi, and served as the CPC representative with the rank of major-general.
After the Chinese Civil War broke out in 1927, Zhou served in the communist forces, helping establish and oversee a network of underground cells of communist resistance. Zhou played a leading role in the Long March of 1934-35, an arduous military retreat of communist forces over 8,000 miles.
Following the Zunyi Conference in 1935, Mao Zedong became Zhou's assistant. After the conclusion of the Long March, Mao officially took over Zhou Enlai's leading position in the CPC, while Zhou took a secondary position as vice-chairman. Both would hold their leadership positions until their deaths in 1976.
Zhou was a prominent participant in the 1955 AsianโAfrican Conference, held in Indonesia. The conference produced a declaration in strongly in favor of peace, the abolition of nuclear arms, general arms reduction, and the principle of universal representation at the United Nations. Zhou was critical of American imperial aggression and stated "the population of Asia will never forget that the first atom bomb was exploded on Asian soil."
Zhou passed away from bladder cancer on January 8th, 1976, just nine months before Mao Zedong's death in September that year.
"Today the first unification of the Chinese people has emerged. The people themselves have become the masters of Chinese soil, and the rule of the reactionaries in China has been irrevocably overthrown."
Zhou Enlai, from "Chinese People Will not Tolerate Aggression" (October 1950)
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thinking about an rts that features modern asymmetric warfare with drones and shit, realizing that like half the armies i could include are credibly accused of committing genocide
RTS games don't have to be pvp
true, and having the player oppose a genocide is cool and fine, but it's still incredibly doomer just to think about.
I mean, if I was only going to put morally upstanding armies into the game, the only factions would be China and Ansar Allah.
China would be in the game, but not as a playable faction. In the campaign, they would constantly show up in cutscenes in critical moments where all seems lost. They'd appear in strong force, but refuse to engage on grounds of international law, free trade and the rules-based order. Then they'd leave again. And then you'd usually lose for real and in a brutal way. Also, there would be a China-DLC where you get to puzzle together strongly worded letters from little text blocks. /s
(Sorry, I'm not usually bashing China, but couldn't resist. I know things are more complex.)
It's funny cuz my current faction list doesn't have China at all and it's not cuz they wouldn't be a cool faction it's cuz they just aren't in any wars (that aren't taking place in a NATO fan's head)
Yes, true
There would be a brawler minigame were you stick fight some guys in the mountains and then go home and have a beer.
sorry, everything is AI War now
Turns out soldiers kill people. Kojima was right.