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Precisely at 9 a.m. a bell sounded, and the officials milling around the Great Hall of the People scurried to their seats. As some craned their necks to get a good view, Deng Xiaoping, China's top leader, mounted the poinsettia- bedecked dais. Looking fit in a tailored Mao suit and vigorous beyond his 83 years, Deng beamed when the assembled 1,936 delegates gave him a standing ovation. Moments later, the other members of China's ruling gerontocracy limped into view. Leading them was Deng's fellow Politburo Standing Committee member, Conservative Chen Yun. Reportedly weakened by a stroke...
...13th Congress of the 46 million-member Chinese Communist Party officially opened last week, the contrast between the energetic reformer and the enfeebled conservative was starkly symbolic. The party conclave, the first since 1982, had long been seen as a watershed event, the meeting at which Deng would consolidate the controversial economic and political reforms he began in 1979. Less than a year ago, sinologists speculated that the octogenarians who have run the country since the death of Chairman Mao Zedong in 1976 would use the occasion to cede control to younger, reform-minded leaders. In the end Deng Xiaoping...
What a difference a year makes. After months of intraparty squabbling, last week's session was less about consolidation than about compromise. To be sure, Zhao's keynote speech, long viewed as an index of whether Deng's program would move forward, was a ringing endorsement of modernization. But Zhao watered down that optimism by noting it would take longer than expected to make the reforms work. Moreover, Deng's dreams of transferring power to a loyal successor remained largely unrealized. Although the final makeup of the Politburo, its Standing Committee and the party Secretariat will not be known until...
...flaw in Deng's retirement plan was that he bet on the wrong man. His handpicked successor, Hu Yaobang, 72, a keen reformer, was dismissed as party leader in January for failing to control student demonstrators who were demanding freedom and democracy...
...trouble in Lhasa could hardly have come at a more awkward time for the Chinese leadership. Later this month the policies of Party Leader Deng Xiaoping will be reviewed at the 13th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Inevitably, the rioting in Tibet will strengthen the hand of critics who oppose Deng's liberalization efforts and believe the country has moved too quickly toward reform...