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While most people know that after Mao Zedong died in 1976, there was a brief power struggle which Deng Xiaoping won, few know that he was not Mao's immediate successor. Instead, one Hua Guofang was the immediate successor of Chairman Mao and was the one who brought down the Gang of Four before being forced out of power by Deng Xiaoping, but what if he had won the post-Mao power struggle? What does a China ruled by Hua Guofang instead of Deng Xiaoping look like?
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