Editing Deng Xiaoping (section)

=== Resumed war against the Nationalists ===
[[File:Liudeng.jpg|thumb|Deng with [[Liu Bocheng]] (right)]]

After Japan's defeat in World War II, Deng traveled to Chongqing, the city in which Chiang Kai-shek established his government during the Japanese invasion, to participate in peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. The results of those negotiations were not positive and military confrontation between the two antagonistic parties resumed shortly after the meeting in Chongqing.

While Chiang Kai-shek re-established the government in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, the Communists were fighting for control in the field. Following up with guerrilla tactics from their positions in rural areas against cities under the control of the government of Chiang and their supply lines, the Communists were increasing the territory under their control, and incorporating more and more soldiers who had deserted the Nationalist army.

Deng played a major part in the [[Huaihai Campaign]] against the nationalists.<ref name=jac/>

In the final phase of the war, Deng again exercised a key role as political leader and propaganda master as Political Commissar of the [[2nd Field Army]] commanded by Liu Bocheng where he was instrumental in the PLA's march into Tibet. He also participated in disseminating the ideas of Mao Zedong, which turned into the ideological foundation of the Communist Party. His political and ideological work, along with his status as a veteran of the Long March, placed him in a privileged position within the party to occupy positions of power after the Communist Party managed to defeat Chiang Kai-shek and founded the People's Republic of China.

[[File:Deng Xiaoping, He Long and Zhu De.jpg|thumb|Deng Xiaoping with [[He Long]] (middle) and [[Zhu De]] (right) (1949)]]