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...other hand," he argues, "the conservatives could accuse [Paramount Leader] Deng Xiaoping that these protests are caused by his relaxation on political and ideological issues. They will tell him, `You cannot keep political order...
This background leads to the thought that student demonstrations in favor of "democracy" are presumably in sympathy with and may be factionally allied with the reform wing of the Party that is pursuing political modernization under Deng Xiaoping. The reformers realize that new institutional arrangements are essential for China's modern political life. They may well feel that the majority of the Party are dragging their feet...
...past the Deng government has been able to suppress student unrest with a minimum of violence by using the worst threat at its disposal: assignment upon graduation to an uninteresting job in a remote location. But as the last month's events have suggested, some seem willing to risk even a promising future. "Somebody has to do it," says a recent Peking University graduate. "The fate of the country is at stake." The demonstrations, he added, "will eventually be viewed as a boon to history because they are keeping our leaders on their toes, forcing them to speed...
Peking faces a particularly dangerous dilemma. The more "democracy" it allows the students, the more they will continue to demand. But the more their "freedom" is abridged, the more inevitable will further protests become. Unless Deng and his colleagues play their hand with exquisite skill, the result could be just the kind of harsh crackdown they desperately fear and seek to avoid...
...Tiananmen Square to protest the removal by Maoist radicals of thousands of wreaths that had been placed at the Monument to the People's Heroes in memory of Premier Chou En-lai, who had died the previous January. The protesters obliquely attacked Mao and waved banners declaring support for Deng Xiaoping, then senior Deputy Premier. The demonstration quickly turned violent and was suppressed by authorities, who pronounced it "counterrevolutionary." The incident marked the beginning of the end for Mao's Gang of Four and served as a harbinger of Deng's long-awaited ascent to power -- and of the social...