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  "textContent": "submitted by thelastaxolotl to chapotraphouse\n39 points | 30 comments\n\n\nZhou 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.”\n\nZhou 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.\n\nWhile 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.\n\nAfter 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.\n\nFollowing 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.\n\nZhou was a prominent participant in the 1955 Asian–African 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.”\n\nZhou passed away from bladder cancer on January 8th, 1976, just nine months before Mao Zedong’s death in September that year.\n\n“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.”\n\n> Zhou Enlai, from “Chinese People Will not Tolerate Aggression” (October 1950)\n\n  * Zhou Enlai Archive\n  * Conversations with Zhou Enlai\n\n\n\n**Megathreads and spaces to hang out:**\n\n  * 🐻 Link to all Hexbear comms hexbear.net/post/1403966\n  * 🐼 Hexbear Matrix Chat matrix.to/#/#Hexbear:matrix.org\n  * 📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube](live.hexbear.net/c/movies\n  * 🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread hexbear.net/post/7531752\n  * ⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread hexbear.net/post/7600771\n  * 🏳️‍⚧️ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread hexbear.net/post/7538588\n  * 👊 New Weekly Improvement thread hexbear.net/post/7525475\n  * 🧡 Disabled comm megathread hexbear.net/post/7454726\n  * ☕ Parenting Chat hexbear.net/post/7526773\n  * 🐉 Anime & Manga discussion thread hexbear.net/post/7546692\n  * 🎩Fashion megathread hexbear.net/post/7228810\n\n\n\n**reminders:**\n\n  * 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics\n  * 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears\n  * 💜 Sorting by new you nerd\n  * 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog\n\n\n\n**Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):**\n\n**Aid:**\n\n  * 🌈 LGBTQ+ Resource Post\n  * 🍉 Resources for Palestine\n  * 🐌☕ Zapatista Coffee\n\n\n\n**Theory:**\n\n  * ❤️Foundations of Leninism\n  * ❤️Anarchism and Other Essays\n\n\n\n**Financial Support to the Bearsite**\n\n  * 🇨🇳 liberapay.com/hexbear\n\n  * 🇷🇺 www.patreon.com/hexbear\n\n\n",
  "title": "Zhou Enlai \"All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.\" - Novo General Megathread for the 27th of February to 6th of March 2026"
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