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...close ally of Beijing, has emboldened China's dissidents. When news of Ceausescu's execution began to circulate, Beijing experienced a temporary shortage of beer as students bought up cases and smashed the bottles -- just as they did last spring to show their opposition to the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, whose given name in spoken Chinese can mean "little bottle...
...symbol of hope for a new kind of Soviet Union. He is only the third non-American to have been so designated more than once. One was Churchill, who was also Man of the Year for 1940. The other two were, like Gorbachev, communists: Stalin and China's Deng Xiaoping (1978 and 1985). Will Gorbachev make it again? Stay with us as we embark on a new decade that promises to be anything but dull...
Just as Poland was showing the world the best that could be hoped for in the drama of reform, China was showing the worst. Deng Xiaoping had introduced bold and promising reforms of the economy under the slogan of "Four Modernizations." But Deng kept the political system rigidly in the Stalinist mold. Inspired by their increased exposure to the outside world in general and by the example of Gorbachev's democratization in particular, the people of China appealed to their leadership for more political freedom. A demonstration by several thousand students escalated into a six-week occupation of the central...
...wants to keep it. His political reforms, glasnost, are totally inadequate compared with a free society. But compared with what the Soviet people had before, the changes are breathtaking. His economic reforms, perestroika, have been an abject failure. For example, in the ten years of Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms, the per capita income of the Chinese people has doubled. In the five years of Gorbachev's rule, the per capita income of the Russian people has gone down. But while Gorbachev has only marginally changed the Soviet Union, he has profoundly changed the world, simply by saying what many...
Little more than a week before the latest title shuffle, Deng and other officials met with one of modern China's closest American friends, Richard Nixon. During the visit, the former President told his hosts that "many in the U.S. believe the crackdown was excessive and unjustified . . . and damaged the respect and confidence which most Americans previously had for the leaders of China." Nonetheless, Nixon feels strongly that the U.S. must rebuild its relations with China. Last week TIME obtained a copy of a report Nixon sent to a bipartisan group of congressional leaders. Some excerpts...