In 1955, Chinese premier Zhou Enlai was the target of an assassination attempt by the KMT in what has become known as the “Kashmir Princess” incident, named after a passenger plane that was rigged with a time bomb. Sixteen people died, but Zhou was not among them.
Read the article by James Carter: https://thechinaproject.com/2021/04/14/the-assassination-attempt-of-zhou-enlai/
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