Quote by Peter Hessler
““But there were reports that Jiang and other members of the Old Guard were resisting retirement, and experts said that the Beidaihe meetings would be the first battleground of the political transition. Communist China had never had an orderly succession—for half a century, every transfer of power had involved coups or power struggles.””
![“Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and it would be impossible for the revolution to triumph. In these years [the eighteen years since the founding of the Party] the development, consolidation and…” quote by Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e72/mao-zedong-1123_armed-struggle_without-armed-struggle-neither-the-prole_2800979.jpg)
