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However, the scholar did not qualify for a passport until April 1992, after the Deng Xiaoping regime's decision to increase emigration of influential dissidents...
...warning from China's most cuddly communist was "carefully measured," said a Chinese analyst in Beijing, and proves that reformists and conservatives agree on the issue. "China," said the analyst, "will never give in to Patten's proposals." Time is on China's side, as 1997 quickly approaches. Patriarch Deng Xiaoping has reportedly urged an unbending stance, advising, "Do not fear tension." The colony should brace for more...
...Three cobblers with their wits combined equal Zhuge Liang, the master mind," says a Chinese aphorism. To speed up Deng Xiaoping's market-style reforms, China's pragmatic leaders are tapping the mind of a modern-day Zhuge Liang: University of Pennsylvania professor Lawrence Klein. The American Nobel laureate in economics in 1980 was appointed as an adviser to the State Planning Commission, which oversees the industrial sector. They hope Klein's wisdom can help them build a "socialist market economy," Deng's newest oxymoron...
Cold war certitudes were too great to make such inquiries easy, and George Bush, as it turned out, was the last to encourage those or any other new reflections on world order. His boasted expertise in world affairs was largely a matter of knowing many foreign leaders. Deng Xiaoping he knew from the days of President Ford, and Mikhail Gorbachev from President Reagan's -- which just meant he was slow to respond to new situations after the Tiananmen Square massacre and the rise of Boris Yeltsin. Bush's is an inertial view of the world, meant to retain old ties...
...Christopher Patten, Hong Kong's gutsy new British Governor. On his first visit to China, Patten was snubbed by the top brass and told curtly that his ideas for further democratizing Hong Kong before the 1997 Chinese takeover were unacceptable. Beijing threatened to annul such political reforms, even if Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms are mainland gospel today. Chinese reverence for the wisdom of age was clear when the 14th Communist Party Congress's 2,000 delegates cheered the ultimate appearance of Deng, 88. Tottering into the Great Hall of the People, he congratulated the congress on its "great success...