Two Whatevers

The " Two Whatevers " ( Chinese : ??凡是 ; pinyin : Li?ng ge fan shi ) refers to the statement that "We will resolutely uphold whatever policy decisions Chairman Mao made, and unswervingly follow whatever instructions Chairman Mao gave" ( 凡是毛主席作出的?策，我?都????；凡是毛主席的指示，我?都始?不?地遵循 ).

This statement was contained in a joint editorial, entitled "Study the Documents Well and Grasp the Key Link", printed on 7 February 1977 in People's Daily , the journal Red Flag and the PLA Daily . ^[1]

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The policy was advocated by the Chinese Communist Party chairman Hua Guofeng , Mao's successor, who had earlier ended the Cultural Revolution and arrested the Gang of Four . However, this policy proved unpopular with Deng Xiaoping and other party leaders advocating market reform .

It proved a trigger for Deng's manoeuvre in 1978 to gain control of economic policy in China, and led eventually to Hua being demoted from the party leadership in 1980. ^[2]

The coalition of Hua's political supporters, referred to as the "whateverist faction", ^[3] also lost its power after Deng's political manoeuvre: Wang Dongxing , Ji Dengkui , Wu De , and Chen Xilian , the so-called " Little Gang of Four ", were relieved of all their Party and state posts during the 5th Plenum of the 11th Central Committee of the CCP , 23?29 February 1980.

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^ "???承?"??凡是"?? ?小平?上台" . 中??. 3 September 2008 . Retrieved 21 January 2011 .
^ "???提??"凡是"阻??小平出山" . 新?午? . Retrieved 22 January 2011 .
^ Fontana, Dorothy Grouse (1982). "Background to the Fall of Hua Guofeng" . Asian Survey . 22 (3): 237?260. doi : 10.2307/2644028 . ISSN 0004-4687 . JSTOR 2644028 .

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[1] "???承?"??凡是"?? ?小平?上台" . 中??. 3 September 2008 . Retrieved 21 January 2011 .

[2] "???提??"凡是"阻??小平出山" . 新?午? . Retrieved 22 January 2011 .

[3] Fontana, Dorothy Grouse (1982). "Background to the Fall of Hua Guofeng" . Asian Survey . 22 (3): 237?260. doi : 10.2307/2644028 . ISSN 0004-4687 . JSTOR 2644028 .

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