But he was removed from power and sent to the countryside even though he did nothing wrong. If anything, Deng and Liu Shaoqi were saving the Chinese economy after the disastrous Great Leap Forward. But when Mao saw their success and his massive failure, he decided to act against them to preserve his own power, leading to the Cultural Revolution.
Since you purposely avoided the topic of his economic management, you admit that he was a complete failure as an administrator? Here is the problem with his mindset. He sees everything as conflict and his answer was always more fight/revolution.
You can call it a "party cadre quality assurance" program.
Huawei is making more money than ever. The more the US sanctions Huawei, the more successful Huawei becomes.
There is no such thing as economic progress for China when it was in a constant state of war from 1949 to 1980s. Mao defended China successfully in a nearly 30 year long struggle. That is all the achievement he needs to be the best Chinese ruler in recent centuries. Great Leap Forward and Culture Revolution are merely distractions in the big picture implanted by jealous Americans who wish China ill.
That's the repetitive stuff you hear from western perspective when they talk about Mao. They are angry with him because he cockblocked the western imperialist plans from turning China into another western poodle like India.
A lot of people don't realize in 1949 China was sanctioned by every western countries.
At the time, China had no choice but to fight because war was forced upon China. In reality you probably run from a fight but the Chinese at that time were not cowards like the ones today.
Deng' son was beaten to a handicapped by red guard.
