China's first Communist prime minister, Zhou Enlai, visited his neighbour at least nine times between 1954 and 1965.

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Even Beijing's vast Forbidden City would have been steamrolled had Premier Zhou Enlai not objected and posted troops in its defense.

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Hu is seen as a "Zhou Enlai II" - a kind man who doesn't put on airs, the antithesis of a pompous bureaucrat.

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In the 1970s, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger asked Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai his opinion on the chief consequences of the French Revolution.

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The generals, for their part, had grown alarmed by Chinese shipments to Indonesia of small arms under an agreement between leftist Air Force commander Omar Dhani and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai.

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Former U.S. foreign service officer Chas Freeman reports that the French Revolution Zhou Enlai was referring to in the early 1970s was not the 1789 uprising, but the Parisian student riots of 1968.

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