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...began the first week of 1985 for the world's most populous nation. Six years after Deng Xiaoping, in an attempt to shape China into a powerful, modern nation, introduced some of the most daring and far-reaching reforms ever attempted in a Communist country, the winds of change are blowing as strongly as ever. Like Mao Tse-tung before him, Deng, now 80, is trying to imprint his notion of what China should be upon the country before he dies. However, unlike Mao, an eternal revolutionary, Deng is a shrewd pragmatist whose economic reforms have proved popular, at least...
...Deng actually delivered those remarks at the October meeting of the Central Advisory Commission, a grouping of the Communist Party's elder statesmen, but the full text had not been published before. In what was clearly a dramatic effort to give the reform movement even greater momentum, the country's press carried the speech on front pages. "No country can now develop by closing its door," said Deng, in a spirited defense of his policy of building ties to the West. "We suffered from this, and our forefathers suffered from this. Isolation landed China in poverty, backwardness and ignorance." Only...
...Deng's campaign moved forward on several other fronts last week. A pamphlet containing Deng's major pronouncements over the past two years went on nationwide sale at 10 cents a copy. Titled Building China with Socialist Characteristics, the 72-page booklet stressed productivity as the solution to China's ills. According to Deng, every worker must "find a thousand and one . ways to make the country prosperous," because "when our state is powerful, all will be well." A day later Premier Zhao Ziyang announced in a speech that the rigid wage system for government workers would be loosened...
...China's Deng Xiaoping, TIME's Man of the Year in 1978, boldly delivered on his promises to open the Chinese economy and bring the world's most populous nation into the political and economic mainstream. The reforms that had allowed a small degree of capitalism and entrepreneurship in the countryside were slowly extended to the cities. In its new and frank acceptance of economic incentives, China took another historic turn away from Marx and Lenin and toward, in a sense, Peter Ueberroth...
...them is the recognition of the influence of Nancy Reagan on her husband, which has been noted by both China's Deng Xiaoping and the Soviet Union's Andrei Gromyko after official meetings with the President. Reagan's growing interest in foreign policy is another. He has faces and personalities to put onto governments, and friends to call and talk with about international problems. That has changed what was often an academic exercise into a people problem, which Reagan likes...