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...Deng Xiaoping nears death, new leaders gird for change...
...obviously itched to get back into the main ring even while Republicans held the White House. He told the New York Times he had written to Deng Xiaoping and Francois Mitterrand urging a vote against the U.N. resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq. That attempt to undermine the policy of his own country's government was, Carter conceded, "perhaps not appropriate...
American experts, unable to discern Castro's plan, wonder whether his fate will turn out to be like that of China's Deng Xiaoping or East Germany's Erich Honecker. Deng produced prosperity by pushing through liberal economic reforms while holding tight to hard-line communist political control. Honecker denied the need for reform and was swept away by a vast national upheaval. Castro probably identifies more closely with Deng, who succeeded while remaining a communist. But Castro is striving to avoid basic reforms, making it more likely that he could end up like Honecker, a diehard and a failure...
...cold war's first hot conflict and bloodshed on a grand scale, Beijing has been wedded to the fortunes of North Korea's founder, a man Mao Zedong embraced as a strong ally. Over the years the friendship sweetened and soured, but the alliance remained fast. Evidence that Deng Xiaoping's China was withholding approval of the designated heir was a potent signal. Of the dynastic passing of power, a Chinese academic remarked, "China cannot criticize, but we are not accustomed to this method." According to some reports, Deng advised Kim Il Sung in 1992 not to go through with...
...North Korea and Cuba both fall, will China be satisfied to rumble on its own, or will it lash out at the world? When Deng dies and Hong Kong is coopted, will it rumble more quickly towards capitalism? The first of the events in the chain has just taken place; what follows will soon unfold...