COMMUNIST CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79R00890A001100040029-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: April 29, 1959
• Content Type: BRIEF

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Communist
,chi to the chairmanship of th
Chinese Co
4sr
COMMUNIST
seems to be
.u to succeed hire eventua
A. Liu has bee
indication fat
as chairman
or about 15 years. He
most impcr tart party
Central cittee, the politburo, and the
I super-politb
made the principal address at each of the past two party
congresses,
buro standing committee
.
first lieu
a immediately behind Mao in the
adds to Liu's prestige.
utiding uu
her-figure like Mao.
Liu, now 91, has been a cold and humorless
of doctrine, organ sl
in recent years, Chinese press has tried to humanize Liu.
sometimes toured countryside to talk With
and has sometimes received foreign delegations.
. sever, liu has a long way to go before he will have anything
popularity of +.
Chou Efli lai has retained his post as premier and appear
g party leader # behind Mao and Liu.
Chou has held the premiership, the most important gaveru ent
post, since regime was proclaimed in 1949,
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position and his performance in it provide the main
usnce in party councils,
ociated with .o "fie-tuns, for more than
40 years, and since 1943 h emerged an I's favor
and most likely heir.
Liu knew Nao, as a studen
9nivers
but was attracted to Ca
y, and became a Cvmmun
followed
Fussier in 1919. Re did not like Russia
Liu was primarily a labor organizer until 1927, and worked for
a time with Mao. He was then an underground loader
was *looted to the
od ms's "$ov et
Z.iu made the tong Bch of 1934-38
tbue
uth
*de
the march, he strongly supported o in siisput
th othe
party leaders. After 1936, he was an underground leader
Japanese in China.
D. In the early 194Os, Liu made a repot
Mao's doctrine, and supervised the first "rectif
the party. In 1945,
was elected: vice.
for of
"t of
afted the party's ooustjtutjon,
of the party.
1949, Liu was chosen to s
the ms's condo
1931, and
Titoisr and affinity with the USSR.
Gl
'rie-ohacirmsa of new Peiping regime, but
Liu w
occupied pr
1963, but goo,
the purge of two h
became one of
y with party Of
d. In 1964, he superviaed
,era, Kang and Jao
Ap ?1Q,C R4' 5 ;9 j4 l Pal -i 68 9ij the
government an chairman of the standing committee of the
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National People's Congress.
At the party's 8th Congress in 1966, Liu gave the address
which corresponded to M sto's report to the 1948 Congress.
Liu was thou elected senior vice-chairman of the oentra',
committee and politburo, and second-ranking member of the
tburo standing committee.
shown a strong preference for hard-line
pparently out of sympathy with fto
"hundred flowers" experiment in 1966-570 and played a leading
role in the harsh "rectification" e
In late
188, he bee
h followed,
one of the leaders of
the "great leap forward" in economic development. At party
congress May 1968, Liu again gave the principal report: two
persons
Lu gave the other two maJor reports, and
three persons close to Liu were nssd as the three new
members of the py politburo.
8, IAu has been closely
ed with Mao in
,,{,
the ",communes" pr gram, He has happily described the communes
kiaeers of the entire lift of the people," and has
given every indication that he would Continue
arty chief.
Liu, like fto and most other CCP leaders, is n -gl y pro.Soviet,
and ban often acted a defender of oviet positions. paw
ees with *a* that the Chinese par
t maintain
viet control and must not blindly follow
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