Word: deng
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alliance between India and China to stave off the Vietnamese threat. The Two nations launch a preemptive strike on Hanoi, form parking lot. Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaphong comments "they were obviously insane. We had to bomb them to save them...
Chairman Hua Goufeng had been anointed by Mao shortly before his death as one who might bridge both sides, but within a year after Mao's death, the Party hierarchy emerged victorious Deng Xiaoping, former Secretary General and now newly anointed as Vice Premier, led the return of the Party. With the legacy of poverty and ineffective educational and economic leadership, it is unlikely, despite new pragmatic rhetoric and uneven progress toward openness, that China will join the ranks of the advanced industrial powers before the 21st century...
None of these trends could match in power and drama, or in menacing implications for the future, the eruption in Iran. A year ago, in its cover story on 1978's Man of the Year, Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, TIME noted that "the Shah of Iran's 37-year reign was shaken by week upon week of riots." Shortly thereafter, the Shah fell in one of the greatest political upheavals of the post-World War II era, one that raised troubling questions about the ability of the U.S. to guide or even understand the seething passions of the Third...