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...army was divided as to how to handle the Tiananmen protests, and MacFarquhar says military leaders are almost certainly still split. "When Deng Xiaoping dies, that essential lid on top of this boiling cauldron will be taken off," he says...
...Deng's successors probably will be unable to maintain the systems of repression and will be forced to liberalize, experts say. Deng currently is trying to boost the credibility of those who support his economic reforms, in the hope that his plans will live on after his death...
...Hopefully Deng Xiaopeng will not die first and some of the hardliners will," says Merle Goldman, a professor of modern Chinese history at Boston University and a research associate at the Fairbank Center...
...best face on an unpopular regime. Recent decisions to relax the government's two-year-old economic austerity program, lift martial law in Beijing and the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and tone down the ideological decibel level represent a modest victory for the pragmatic approach of retired patriarch Deng Xiaoping over a clutch of veteran hard- liners. Yet Deng, 85, remains locked in a paralyzing succession struggle that precludes any but the most cosmetic policy changes in the near future. "What we are seeing is the classic politics of the end of an era," says a senior Asian diplomat...
...they see you?" asked Li Ruihuan, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, in an interview with the People's Daily. "We should talk about something that the people are interested in and that can help them do away with their worries." None of the would-be successors to Deng can spin such sentiments into a platform of action, however, as long as the so-called gang of elders is watching their every move. "It's too dangerous for one to raise his head above the crowd for fear of having it chopped off," observes a diplomat...