Word: deng
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...mutual self-interest that brought Washington and Beijing together back in 1972. The Nixon administration engaged with China not because it believed this would make China a more open society or economy, but because it would outflank their mutual enemy in Moscow. Later, as the crypto-capitalist Deng Xiaoping replaced Mao Zedong and began opening China's markets to the West, the relationship morphed from an alliance of convenience against a mutual foe into a partnership based on trade and investment...
...view, Deng Xiaoping promoted the One Country, Two Systems formula to allow China to become more like Hong Kong, not the other way around. If Tung, out of a misplaced sense of patriotism, enacts anticult legislation to please Beijing's leaders, he will be doing his country a disservice. Tsang's remarks suggest moderation but even he left open the possibility of a future ban. "We are not legislating," he said last week, a statement that covers just the present, meaning the government might shift tack at any time. That would please the ignorant and the sycophants in China...
...coffins are hoisted into the ovens. Women who have been employed to mourn for the deceased?a common practice in Taiwan?do so halfheartedly, whimpering rather than weeping. The funeral cloth is ragged, flowers are wilted, the hearses old and decrepit. "The level of service here is disgraceful," says Deng Wen-lung, a university lecturer in life and death studies who has accompanied a visitor to the scene. "Taiwanese have to be taught they can demand something better...
...Twin cities usually grow up together. For Hong Kong and its dark alter ego Shenzhen, the relationship is something more akin to step-twins. Shenzhen was virtually decreed into existence: in 1980 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping clicked his fingers and invited the people of dynamic, British-owned Hong Kong to make something of the 3.5 sq km stretch of fishing villages and rice paddies just over the border. What arose was a kind of twisted sister, a town of skyscrapers and sweatshops, laissez-faire business and institutionalized lust. Shenzhen is where Hong Kongers go to make love and make money...
...Majesty's Britain was not amused, and neither were Russia and France. Armament begat counter-armament, alliances spawned counter-alliances. Domestically, too, the Reich resembled contemporary China. Having unleashed irrepressible economic growth, the Kaiser and his aristocracy found themselves in the same deadly dilemma as Deng's heirs today: How to keep power away from the rising middle classes? The answer: nationalism and chauvinism, which exacerbated diplomatic conflicts with Berlin's neighbors...