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Cultural Revolution OTD 1974 @GPCR50

50th anniversary live-tweeting China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. China 1974 Joined February 2016
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30/4/74 Marshal Peng Dehuai - still not at liberty - is receiving medical attention for advanced cancer of the intestine, diagnosed this month.

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27/4/74 Zhou Enlai goes in for more medical treatment for his cancer. He is still passing blood and has started receiving transfusions this month.

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26/4/74 A report warns of subversion and sabotage by KMT agents, directed against PRC officials overseas in particular, and in Guangzhou in general.

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22/4/74 The State Planning Commission notes that China is missing most economic targets since the Lin Biao-Confucius campaign but offers no remedies.

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22/4/74 A Shanghai paper carries a story attacking late-Qing "Prime Minister" Li Hongzhang for pathetically seeking to buy foreign-built ships.

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19/4/74 Nationalist war hero turned Communist Minister Fu Zuoyi dies in hospital from cancer, having been protected through the Cultural Revolution.

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18/4/74 The Politburo discusses factionalism in Yunnan and agrees to bring Kunming Military Regional head Wang Bicheng to Beijing for his own safety.

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17/4/74 Mao writes a letter to Jiang Qing telling her to stop moaning and denying her request to step back from politics. He later re-writes it.

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15/4/74 Zhou Enlai visits dying Fu Zuoyi, having discussed him with Mao. Zhou tells Fu that Mao praised his decision to surrender Beijing to the PLA.

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14/4/74 Deng Xiaoping and Qiao Guanhua and Kissinger share a three-hour dinner. Deng says very little and refers substantial questions to Qiao.

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14/4/74 Fujian authorities condemn big-character posters attacking Li Desheng and ban big-character posters from being posted in the streets.

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11/4/74 Guangdong's proposals suggest using education to discourage different work units' activists from linking up like activists did in 1966-67.

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11/4/74 Zhou Enlai approves Guangdong leader Zhao Ziyang's proposal that big-character posters cannot attack officials unless sanctioned by Beijing.

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10/4/74 The UN General Assembly applauds Deng Xiaoping's speech for a long time. Fellow members of Mao's "Third World" especially welcome it.

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10/4/74 If one day China bullies or interferes in other countries, Deng Xiaoping calls on them to oppose China and expose its "social-imperialism".

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10/4/74 Deng Xiaoping says that the USSR is no less colonialist than the USA: it's a "merchant of death" trading substandard weaponry for resources.

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10/4/74 By seeking hegemony, the superpowers have created their own antithesis in the form of "resistance among the Third World", says Deng Xiaoping.

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10/4/74 Deng Xiaoping tells the UN that there is "great disorder under heaven" resulting in a worldwide realignment: the "socialist camp" is no more.

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10/4/74 On the first day of the UN General Assembly in New York, Deng Xiaoping gives a speech on Mao's "three worlds", drafted by Qiao Guanhua.

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10/4/74 Zhou Enlai forbids toppled PLA officers Zhao Yongfu and Li Shengto from being taken back to face possible danger in their old patches.

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