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...alone is what powers current policies. For example, Zhao argues, the trial of the Gang of Four is a reassertion of the authority of written law after a period when "the top leaders' words were law." "It's very easy to gain vindication," he says, dismissing the notion that Deng Xiaoping--purged during the Cultural Revolution--is just "getting back" at his old enemies. "They can just put the Gang away and have them shot...
Long-term political change, he believes, will be difficult to implement. "Any reform will hurt the vested interest," Zhao contends. "Bureaucracy abhors change and present policies are running into a stiff resistance." If Deng's policies fail, Zhao warns, the nation will either revert to following the Soviet Union or become "something like Iran, neither pro-Western nor pro-Eastern, but internally confused and chaotic...
There is virtually no doubt what the verdicts will be - guilty as charged. The judges, who are mostly party or military officials rather than professional jurists, are unlikely to ignore the well-known goals of China's strongman, Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, and his powerful allies. One is to discredit permanently the Gang of Four and other radicals who not only purged the current leaders but also brought China to the edge of chaos. An other is to lower public esteem for Mao without discrediting the Great Helmsman entirely...
...China's new government. Until early this year he was the governor of Anhui province in the eastern part of China; there, as in Premier Zhao's Sichuan, the new national economic policies were first tested. Wan was brought into the central government when Party Vice Chairman Deng, who was then Vice Premier, began promoting skilled provincial administrators to top jobs in Peking. Like his mentor and ally Deng, Wan had been twice purged as a "counterrevolutionary" and twice resurrected. "I personally suffered a lot," he says. "As a party, we have learned much from our suffering. That...
...former Chinese ambassador to several European countries, Huan, 70, is one of thousands of intellectuals who have been restored to important posts since Deng returned to power...