Lin Piao
[Chinese lin byou] /Chinese ˈlɪn ˈbyaʊ/
noun, Wade-Giles.
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/ˈlɪn ˈpjaʊ/
noun
1.
1908–71, Chinese Communist general and statesman. He became minister of defence (1959) and second in rank to Mao Tse-tung (1966). He fell from grace and is reported to have died in an air crash while attempting to flee to the Soviet Union
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