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 == Edits made on July 9, 2013 == 

 1. I added ""politely"" in ""After Lin Biao politely refused Mao's offer to command Chinese forces in Korea"" because ""refused"" by itself sounded too defiant. Nobody was refusing a command offered by Mao at that time. And besides that he never technically refused, he just said he was scheduled to fly to the Soviet Union to have medical treatment at that time (which he was) but was also a convinient excuse. I also took out ""General"" for Lin Biao and Peng Dehuai which I felt was unneccessary.  

 2. I also had to change the structure of the a bit in the section ""China intervenes"". Mao immediately gave the command to Peng after Lin refused/make a excuse. I'm positive he didn't ""ask him to Beijing to hear his views"". Mao was not someone who was hesitant about telling people what to do. He wouldn't ask Peng to hear both sides and give his opinion, he told Peng to command the forces going to Korea, then told Peng to speak in favor of intervention. Remember Peng and Mao had a little brother-big brother type relationship. My source on this is The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam btw. 

 3. I added a bit more detail to Zhou Enlai and the Chinese delegation's trip to the Soviet Union. They went to Moscow first and then to Stalin's Black Sea resort. 

 I do plan to make a couple more edits, nothing major but I just want to incorporate a couple more sources. I don't want to step up anyone's toes. Hopefully any of you who have a problem with my edits will tell me here.   "