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...knives are out. If Deng died tomorrow, this place would be a real mess." With those blunt words, a senior Western diplomat in Peking summarized the view of China watchers around the world about the country's new power struggle. Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping appears to be in trouble, and his vaunted economic reforms may also be imperiled...
...question of whether Deng is still in charge was first raised in January, when his protege and handpicked successor, Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, was abruptly ousted after being blamed for disruptive student demonstrations in December. Deng immediately spread the word that he had favored both Hu's ouster and a crackdown against the students, who were demanding more democracy...
...wily Deng, 82, seemed to be using his lifelong tactic of playing off the major political factions against one another in order to stay on top. After Hu's removal, the Chinese press continued to hold Deng up as the leading opponent of "bourgeois liberalization" -- the adoption of Western values that was the main sin of both Hu and the students. Deng, according to a party document made available to Western reporters last week, had been an early critic of the ex-party chief's six major "errors," one of which was that he encouraged too much buying of consumer...
...emerging as Deng's leading rival is another octogenarian, Peng Zhen, 84, chairman of the National People's Congress and a Marxist of the old school. Peng, a contender for top party posts in the early 1960s, was purged in 1966. He is reported to be bitter that he has never been elevated by Deng to the party's top echelon. However, he has turned the Congress, once a legislative rubber stamp, into a center for opposition to Deng's reforms...
...East Asian Languages and Civilizations concentrator used his $2200 grant to research the extent to which the liberalization reforms associated with Premier Deng Xiao Ping have spilled over into the Chinese press. "The press will show the true colors of reform; it's the melting point of reformation," he says...