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He writes that Xi was a strong advocate in getting Beijing’s support for Guangdong’s reforms. “At the time, turning it into a central policy certainly needed Deng’s OK. But actually not ...
May 31, 2016 · What Xi is saying is that the legitimacy of the Communist Party China rests on the whole history of its rule, and that if the legitimacy of Party rule is questioned for one historical period, then it can be questioned for other historical periods. Deng felt the same way, and what Xi is doing in this speech is forcefully repeating Deng’s own ...
- Deng's Rise, Fall and Rise Again
- To Get Rich Is Glorious
- Biding Its Time No More
Born to a landowning familyin Sichuan province in 1904, Deng gradually progressed through the Chinese Communist hierarchy as a committed Marxist-Leninist and a tough field commander and political commissar. Mao Zedong may have prevailed in a bloody revolutionary war against the Nationalists, but it was his one-time protégé who propelled a country c...
Deng was, without question, an authoritarian figure who believed in the absolute power of the Chinese Communist Party. His legacy will be forever stained by his authorisation of force against the pro-democracy demonstrators on Tiananmen Squarein 1989, in which hundreds are believed to have died, and many more were incarcerated. Without excusing the...
None of this is to suggest Deng's legacy will be untroubled, or that China's surging power and influence will continue to build without impediments. The country's continuing economic transformation resembles a high-wire act as China's leadership seeks to maintain its footing in a world in flux as American power recedes. China's economy is far from ...
Xi even laid flowers at the feet of a Deng statue as part of the festivities. He had visited the same statue, bouquet in hand, soon after taking power in 2012, sparking hopes that he would follow ...
Aug 22, 2018 · Xi Jinping has adopted many of the policies from Deng Xiaoping's era yet the social contract and vision he has worked out for China is politically very different, says one observer.
Nov 5, 2018 · During Mr. Xi’s visit to southern China last month, he noted the coming anniversary, attended an exhibition devoted to it and vowed to continue the economic transition that Deng began, but did ...
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Jan 26, 1992 · Just as the dowager Empress Ci Xi had controlled the political stage from behind a silken curtain, so Deng, with the aid of Yang Shangkun, directs events in the Great Hall of the People and within ...
