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...pledge and begs Bush to debate him "at the country club of his choice." His regular stump speech extolling isolationism, protectionism and fiscal stinginess is seasoned with attacks on "boodling" Congressmen, upholstered think tanks cooking up cockeyed new programs, and softheaded Trilateralists who would bail out Chinese communist Deng Xiaoping, the "85-year-old chain-smoking communist dwarf" but let Macy's go into Chapter...
This is an Administration that prefers strongmen and dictators. Nothing entirely new here, but at least in the past we supported the likes of Somoza and Marcos in the name of anticommunism. What is the excuse now? One of Bush's favorite dictators is Deng Xiaoping, a communist whose specialty is the repression of democratic (and fervently pro-American) forces. Even the massacre at Tiananmen Square seems to have had little effect on the President's regard for Deng, except for requiring some circumspection, given the heavy domestic opposition to Bush's policy of appeasement...
...immediately identify the name Richard Hess, but you will recognize his work. Since 1977 Dick has painted 14 covers for the magazine. Among the best known are his portrait of Deng Xiaoping, who was our Man of the Year in 1979, and his gatefold showing a cross section of Americans for our 1987 special issue on the 200th anniversary of the Constitution. A native of Royal Oak, Mich., Dick attended the University of Michigan and, improbably, began his career working for a company that manufactured paint-by-number sets. After many years as a graphic designer and an art director...
Generally, either nations have been unwilling to impose sanctions severe enough to cripple the economy of an offending country, or the restrictions have been widely evaded. The moral obloquy that proved so galling to white South Africans means nothing to dictators such as Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Deng Xiaoping of China, who are determined to maintain their power and to hell with world opinion. Some analysts suspect that even in South Africa, sanctions that devastated rather than only damaged the economy might have produced a laager backlash. For once, the U.S. and other nations imposed sanctions just strict enough...
Unremitting enmity continued until President Richard Nixon's triumphant visit to Beijing in 1972 set up another false impression -- that China under Mao and Deng Xiaoping was a nation on the road to capitalism and possibly even democracy. It is, of course, no such thing. China remains a police state controlled by a Communist Party dictatorship and dedicated to socialist central planning with a few market mechanisms...