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category: "Political Figure"
tags:
  - Person
summary: "Chou En-lai was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from 1949 until his death in 1976."
born: 1898-03-05
died: 1976-01-08
location: "Huai'an, Jiangsu, China"
---

Chou En-lai was the first Premier of the People's Republic of [[China]], serving from 1949 until his death in 1976. At the Bandung Conference of African and Asian nations in April 1955, he promised [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] as many arms as [[Egypt]] could afford, marking a significant step in Nasser's efforts to secure military aid from the Communist world.[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 3.