Chairman Cheng

Cheng was the military leader of the People's Republic of China, holding the positions of Chairman of the Communist Party of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, from at least 2063 until the Great War in 2077.

Background
Under the rule of Chairman Cheng, China invaded the U.S. state of Alaska in 2066. China's nominal head of state during the time was President Xin. The exact details of the relationship between the two leaders are unknown.

During the course of the Tranquility Lane or Anchorage Reclamation simulations, Chinese soldiers can occasionally be heard yelling "For Chairman Cheng!" in Mandarin Chinese. The Chinese remnant soldiers found in Mama Dolce's may also shout the same phrase. Liberty Prime sometimes voices the line, "Chairman Cheng will fail! China will fall!"

Irving Cheng, resident of Tenpenny Tower in the year 2277, claims to be a descendant of Chairman Cheng.

Appearances
Chairman Cheng is mentioned in Fallout 3, its add-on Operation: Anchorage, Fallout 4 and Fallout 76.

Behind the scenes

 * His name is a reference to Ashley Cheng, production director at Bethesda Softworks.
 * The name "Cheng" means "Accomplished" in Chinese.
 * His quotation is most likely an allusion to a quote by Mao Zedong, leader of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976: "We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the old world, we are also good at building the new." The fact that Cheng says this suggests that Mao's policies were followed into the 2070's, similar to how American sentiment from the 1950's persisted.