During the Cultural Revolution he acted as a voice for moderation and  sponsored the rise of Deng Xiaoping.  
His diplomatic experience included signing a thirty-year treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union and a trip to the Bandung conference, after which he proclaimed that Africa was "ripe for revolution." Though he discouraged the dissident generals and supported Zhang Xueliang in the Xi'an incident, he later created the second united front between the Communists and KMT and unsuccessfully negotiated with George C. Marshall for an end to the civil war.  During the Cultural Revolution he acted as a voice for moderation and  sponsored the rise of Deng Xiaoping.  FTP, name this man who met with Richard Nixon in 1972, the first Premier of the People's Republic of China.
His diplomatic experience included signing a thirty-year treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union and a trip to the Bandung conference, after which he proclaimed that Africa was "ripe for revolution."
Zhou Enlai