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Asia Times: Beijing's hawks down but not out (1653 words) |
 | Liu Shaoqi, who got the upper hand after the failure of the Great Leap Forward and was the most illustrious victim of the Cultural Revolution, was a white, and represented the effort to wrest power from the hands of the military. |
| Liu failed in his quest because Mao used the military in the internal power struggle and eliminated Liu. |
| Yet even then Jiang was not in full control of the military and thus of the nation, while Deng was still working behind the scenes with the help of Liu Shaoqi and of his longtime assistant Wang Ruilin. |
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