Zhou Enlai goes down with the Princess

Now I'm wondering: What POD would be necessary that Zhou Enlai goes down with the Kashmir Princess in the way you didn't mean? :D
 

Hendryk

Banned
The consequences for China depend on which historians you believe. Some have argued that Zhou did his best to attenuate the destructive effects of Mao's hubristic policies during the Great Leap Forward and especially the Cultural Revolution; others consider he just went along with it all and that only clever PR kept the Chinese at large from associating him with both nightmares.

Be that as it may, there may be a problem further down the line: Deng Xiaoping's career got a significant boost from the support he got from Zhou. It's debatable whether he would rise to the top without Zhou around.
 
Bump!

Just read about this assination attempt earlier. So, rather than starting a new thread I looked to see if one, or more, had already been started. There was only this one that I could find.

So let's go with the idea that Zhou doesn't know about the assination attempt, gets on the plane as planed, and gets killed with the others.
Who steps into his position as premeire?

And as Hendryk stated, would Deng Xiaoping amount to anything more than First Secreatry of the SouthWest region? Would he become General Secreatary of the Communist Party 1956 As in OTL?
 
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