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Zhou Enlai was an important founding member of the Chinese Communist Party and was active throughout his life as an loyal supporter of Mao in government and was seen as a moderating influence on some of Mao’s excesses(ie cultural revolution). He remains very popular with the Chinese and indeed, his death in 1976 triggered the first little known Tiananmen square incident.
