- a variation of Zhou Enlai.
Chou En-lai
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The president said “our private understanding” with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai was that “we won’t encourage it . . . we didn’t say we will discourage it, either.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
Especially for Chou En-lai, and for Pat Nixon it’s beautiful and poetic.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
His parents volunteered for civil rights and leftist causes and traveled to China to meet with Chou En-lai before President Richard M. Nixon’s historic trip there in 1972.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2012
Chen called the apparent plagiarism to the attention of then Premier Chou En-lai, who was a defender of the people against Maoist radicals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two days later, Mr. Chou En-lai, the Premier of the People's Republic of China, proposed that these talks should be resumed "in the interests of peace."
From The Communist Threat in the Taiwan Area by Dulles, John Foster
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