Word: deng
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, the regimes of Kim, Fidel Castro and Deng Xiaoping lived on in relative silence. Kim's death might have been expected to throw his nation into furor. The problem with that theory is simply that he and his government had been planning for the event for years. The ascension of Kim II Sung's son, 52-year-old Kim Jong Il, has been a foregone conclusion for years...
...People's Republic of China, though, could itself undergo turbulent change in the near future. Deng Xiaoping is almost 90, and none of the scores of officials who have filed through the high positions of prime minister and president with Deng in the background have had the personal recognition or staying power to match him. Reports of Deng's ill health have come more and more often in recent months, with one even disputed by his daughter in a statement to the international media...
...possible successors to Deng are mostly more liberal than the aging leader, but the dynamics of China's upper echelons of government are still nebulous to observers from the West. Acting alone, China could throw the whole world into ruin. A coordination with North Korea's forces would not achieve much more than a bankhead on the southeast coast of Asia. In any case, North Korea is expendable except as one of three strictly Communist or Socialist nations on the continent...
...annual rate of more than 20% in big cities, and unemployment is growing as the government shuts down inefficient state industries. Scattered worker protests and strikes have struck fear in Beijing that the authorities could lose control. A leadership succession struggle cannot be long postponed: top boss Deng Xiaoping is approaching his 90th birthday and ailing. In such an atmosphere, Beijing's chiefs will do anything they think necessary to keep a lid on disorder...
China has come a long way since Mao Zedong tried to rekindle its revolutionary fervor with his proclaimed Cultural Revolution of 1966. The subsequent and more moderate leadership of Deng Xiaoping has made a cautious and gradual attempt at economic liberalization. As China undertakes this difficult transition from Communism to capitalism, the U.S. must take care not disrupt China's progress while trying to hasten...