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...leaders of the People's Republic richly deserve sanctions. The people themselves, however, don't. Ever since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, Congress has been looking for ways to beat up on Deng Xiaoping, 87, and his hard-line protege, Premier Li Peng. In addition to repressing its citizens and persecuting its opponents, the Chinese regime has been selling lethal high technology to a number of potential troublemakers, particularly in the Middle East. As a result, Sino-American relations are the worst they have been in 20 years...
George Bush has contributed to the problem by coddling the Deng-Li gerontocracy, thereby provoking Congress to try to replace the Administration's Mr. Nice Guy policy with its own tougher one. It has been 17 years since Bush was U.S. envoy to China, yet he still seems to suffer from the clientitis that sometimes afflicts ambassadors who represent the views of their host governments too well. Three weeks after Tiananmen, the President dispatched National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger to kowtow in secret to Deng, then sent them back several months later...
...takes a million deaths to do it, that's just fine with Sendero. The only nice thing about Sendero is that it's not getting much help--yet--from the outside. Guzman reviled the Soviet Union, and China hasn't stepped in to help out these Maoist purists (remember, Deng Xiaoping got purged a few times during the Cultural Revolution...
...EMPERORS by Harrison E. Salisbury (Little, Brown; $24.95). Enlivened by dozens of interviews, this narrative history of China under communism by a seasoned journalist documents the chaos and corruption of Mao Zedong's reign and the inexorable trend toward glasnost that started under Deng Xiaoping...
...glasnost is coming to Beijing, can demokratizatsia be far behind? Salisbury does not see it. Deng, a "moderate" and pragmatist, was willing to shed as much blood as necessary to put down the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in 1989. His position, like Mao's, was "if he saw himself challenged, he was bound to destroy the challenger." The next emperor, Salisbury predicts, will probably be as pragmatic as Deng. But like Deng he will hold tightly to power and will be ready to order China, as emperors did in dynasties past, "Obey -- and tremble...