Zhou Enlain, one of the most formidable leaders of the Chinese revolution, served as the first Premier of the People’s Republic of China. Yet, he was also the country’s first Foreign minister who advocated for peaceful coexistence with the capitalist West.
Drawing upon the famous 18th-century German strategist and general Carl von Clausewitz, Enlain declared in 1954 that “all diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means”.