His personal prestige, his qualities, his competence assure him a preponderant role however; since 1927 he has been above all the unchallenged specia… - Simone de Beauvoir

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His personal prestige, his qualities, his competence assure him a preponderant role however; since 1927 he has been above all the unchallenged specialist on peasant question. But the power he exercises is no more dictatorial than, for example, Roosevelt's was. New China's Constitution renders impossible the concentration of authority in one man's hands; the country is governed by a team whose members have been united through a long common struggle and by a close friendship.