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...give him an apple?" suggested Deng...
...said Deng, "what incentives can achieve...
...area, where a decidedly unsocialist billboard exhorts, TIME IS MONEY! EFFICIENCY IS LIFE! In the midst of those developments, many peasant families own three-story houses furnished with stereo systems, refrigerators and color TVs (sometimes two per family so that parents can watch one program and children another). When Deng Xiaoping, 79, China's de facto leader, paid a visit in January, he asked one resident how much he earned. Upon hearing the reply (more than $300 a month), the leader observed, with as much amusement as amazement, "You make more than...
Meanwhile, Deng has forced China out of the ethnocentricity developed over two millenniums of imperial supremacy and resuscitated by the almost religious xenophobia of Mao, while urging it to look outward for its economic models. "The Chinese have rediscovered that they are the center of the world," observes a Western diplomat in Peking. "They have put themselves in the position of being courted by everyone...
...will the reformists? Only last month Deng told Japan's Prime Minister, Yasuhiro Nakasone, "In another five years, I don't expect to be alive." Adept at maneuvering behind the scenes (he has twice turned down the title of Premier), Deng has done everything possible to clear the way for his protégés. Eighteen months after he pledged his support to Mao's hand picked successor as Chairman, Hua Guofeng, Deng replaced him with General Secretary Hu Yaobang and installed Zhao Ziyang as Premier. Now most experts agree that although the "open door" will continue to swing...