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Wang Bingnan (1908–1988) was a diplomat and foreign affairs official of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China.
Before 1949, Wang was one of Zhou Enlai's trusted aides and after the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 he became Director General of the General Office of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In January and February 1955 he was Assistant Foreign Minister, and in March of that year became Chinese Ambassador to Poland, a position in which he served until April 1964. While in Poland, he was the Chief Representative of China in the nine-year-long Sino-US Ambassadorial Talks. He was Secretary General of the Chinese Delegation during the Geneva Conference of 1954. In 1966, at the start of the Cultural Revolution, Wang was attacked and imprisoned by the Red Guards. Although he was rehabilitated in 1975, he suffered a heart attack. He died in 1988. Wang Bingnan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, People's Republic of China.
returned to Shanghai with his wife in 1936. They became leading figures in Chinese Communist Party (CCP) relations with foreign countries and foreigners in China. In 1936, since he was a Shaanxi native, the CCP dispatched Wang there to build relations with General Yang Hucheng, who controlled the area around Xi'an, where Mao's wing of the CCP had set up a headquarters. Wang encouraged General Yang to join the active resistance to Japan rather than press the fight against the Communists. In late 1936, in the Xi'an Incident, General Yang and Zhang Xueliang held Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek against his will to force him into active resistance against Japan. Zhou Enlai, apparently at the behest of Joseph Stalin, negotiated Jiang's release and came to rely on Wang's contacts with all sides and his skills in these negotiations.
and Anna Wang visit Mao Zedong, 1945]]In 1939, in response to Mao's directive to place even greater weight on foreign propaganda, the CCP formed a Foreign Affairs Small Group, whose members included Wang Bingnan, Chen Jiakang, Qiao Guanhua, and Gong Peng, a group that stayed together and formed the nucleus of the Foreign Ministry a decade later. The CCP leadership expected them to follow world developments and to cultivate good relations with foreign journalists, diplomats, and soldiers. During the war with Japan, the group served with Zhou in Chongqing, and when wartime cooperation with the Nationalist government turned to Civil War after 1945, Wang was deputy under Ye Jianying in the Foreign Affairs Group of the CCP Central Committee. Wang and Anna visited India briefly in 1945 but returned to work with the Marshall Mission from the end of 1945 to 1947, where he met American diplomats.
As ambassador to Poland, Wang was the highest level diplomat of the People's Republic to have direct contact with American diplomats. During the First Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1955 Wang conducted ambassadorial-level talks in Warsaw with United States Ambassador Jacob D. Beam. An Illustrated History of the Communist Party of China Mao recalled Wang to Beijing for a detailed briefing in a private talk, and Wang left for Warsaw with detailed instructions to find out if Washington would be willing to force Nationalist armies from the islands if offered concessions in return. When Wang revealed to Beam this willingness to concede before extracting concessions in return, Mao attacked him: "even a pig knows to turn around after he hits a wall, and Wang Bingnan does not know how to turn around after he hits a wall." Mao only agreed to keep Wang in Warsaw when Premier Zhou assumed the blame.
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