कर्नल जियांग शि को राजनेताओं से नफरत थी। कुछ के पास विश्लेषणात्मक दिमाग थे। कम अभी भी युद्ध के सिद्धांतों को समझते हैं। यही कारण है कि वह चाहते थे कि राजनेता इससे बाहर रहे। लेकिन नौ सदस्यीय पोलित ब्यूरो स्थायी समिति चीनी कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी की सर्वोच्च निर्णय लेने वाली निकाय थी। चीन में उनकी अनुमति के बिना कुछ भी नहीं किया गया था। शि को बहुत कम पसंद के साथ छोड़ दिया गया था, खासकर जब

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(Colonel Jiang Shi hated politicians. Few possessed analytic minds. Fewer still understood the tenets of warfare. It was why he had wanted the politicians kept out of it. But the nine-member Politburo Standing Committee was the supreme decision-making body of the Chinese Communist Party. Nothing in China was done without their permission. Shi had been left with little choice, especially when his superiors secured an invitation from the General Secretary for him to make the presentation himself. Depending on whom you asked, the meeting had either been a success or an utter disaster. Shi believed it fell in the latter camp.)