Zhang Aiping

Zhang Aiping
▪ 2004

      Chinese general (b. 1910, Da county, Sichuan, China—d. July 5, 2003, Beijing, China), was a key player in modernizing China's armed forces. During World War II he commanded communist troops sent to rescue American aircrews after Lieut. Col. James H. Doolittle's daring raid against Tokyo. A decade later Zhang commanded an army corps that fought American forces during the Korean War (1950–53). As chairman of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission from 1975 until 1982, Zhang shepherded development of China's first nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine. From 1983 to 1988 he served as defense minister. Following retirement, in spring 1989 he unsuccessfully opposed the use of troops to suppress pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square.

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