Word: deng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Peking, Haig found China's boss, Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, feeling let down, the victim of a Carter maneuver: the widely heralded normalization of relations was used for U.S. political gain, but the agreement for credits and technology was never pushed. Deng needed, and got from Haig, a new American response, one that implied action...
...Deng discredits Mao and wins acceptance of his pragmatism...
...plenary session of the Communist Party's Central Committee. Suddenly the crowds faded away and the screen belonged to a pair of diminutive figures seated on the dais. Dressed in identical white sports shirts, they smiled happily and acknowledged the waves of applause. One was Senior Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, the country's de facto ruler and the obvious director of the extravaganza. The other was Hu Yaobang, 66, the newly proclaimed Chairman, whose elevation Deng had long labored to achieve...
...occasion was a great leap forward for Deng, his shrewd brand of pragmatism and his plan to question the legacy and reduce the influence of Mao Tse-tung, the party's Great Helmsman, who died in 1976. Although his power is still not supreme, Deng was able to shunt aside Mao's hand-picked successor to the chairmanship, Hua Guofeng, 61, who was accused of creating a "personality cult" around himself, committing "leftist errors" and opposing the policies advocated by Deng. Relegated to the positions of lowest-ranking Vice Chairman and junior membership in the Politburo...
Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping and other political leaders were expected to focus not on specifics but on broad strategic considerations. With the support of Administration officials, including National Security Adviser Richard Allen, the Secretary hoped to build a consensus between Washington and Peking on the two countries' shared wariness of the Soviet Union. Haig wanted to discuss the possibility of U.S. support for a united front in Cambodia against the Vietnamese-backed regime in Phnom-Penh. He also wished to explore the feasibility of cooperating with the Chinese in supplying arms to the rebel forces in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan...