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...took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.'" LEE KUAN YEW, Singapore's elder statesman, recalling how former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who would have turned 100 on Sunday, dealt with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests...
...cons and stayed open all night so that sports fans could catch every second of live action in Athens. With hundreds of millions of Chinese tuning in to the Games, state broadcasters admitted that viewers were even being siphoned away from the endless documentaries celebrating the 100th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's birth. China dedicated three national channels to the Olympics, and the country's state media dispatched 160 reporters to Athens. Cui Ying of the Shanghai Morning Post, a daily with a circulation of 600,000, estimated that her paper will spend about $120,000 covering the Games. Still...
...sale in China, the former President turned to Chinese sages for guidance at critical moments in his life. As a student, the pirated book says, Clinton so admired MAO ZEDONG that he applied for a visa to visit China. While Governor, Clinton relied on the economic theories of Deng Xiaoping to "give Arkansas a chance to catch up" to the rest of the U.S. Chinese readers may not realize the translation is not exactly faithful. Or they may be buying the phony book for the same reason Americans are snapping up the real one--to skip to the (also enhanced...
...Although the peasants initially benefited from Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms, particularly land reforms in the late 1970s, by the 1990s, those reforms petered out and the farmers’ economic situation deteriorated vis á vis the cities,” she wrote in an e-mail. “It’s because of these reasons that farmers are protesting all over the country...
...Deng, recognized as the Chinese Communist leader who ordered a military crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, is credited for opening the Chinese economy to the world. His land reforms facilitated economic development, allowing farmers to lease their land and sell their harvest in markets...