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Chou En-lai

British  
/ tʃəʊ ɛnˈlaɪ /

noun

  1. 1898–1976, Chinese Communist statesman; foreign minister of the People's Republic of China (1949–58) and premier (1949–76)

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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

True to a memorable photograph, Nixon shakes the hand of Chou En-lai, which Americans had rudely scorned for a generation.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2011

When he gives us lyrical flights, he does it beautifully, as in pensive thoughts of Chou En-lai — here the fine, sonorous, dignified baritone Russell Braun — during the opera’s deeply affecting final moments.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2011

At 2:30 I was told that Chou En-lai needed to see me urgently in the reception room.

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