Hua Guofeng (President Welles)

Hua Goufeng, born as Su Zhu, (February 16, 1921 - August 20, 2008) was the second leader of the United Socialist Republics of China and Vietnam, and Chairman of the USRCV Communist Party. He took over when Mao Zedong died in 1976, and remained in this capacity until his own death in 2008.

Hua continued the path laid down by Mao, whom he was a faithful follower. Under his rule, the USRCV became the third largest power besides the United States and the Soviet Union. He also continued the antagonistic approach to both powers, and engaged them in an open arms race. His interior politics were similarly strict: the dictatorship he built in China and Vietnam was feared inside and outside alike.