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...Deng's triumph includes a purge of some old enemies
...posthumous rehabilitation of Liu was another triumph for one of his closest allies-China's all-powerful Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. Nor was that all. The Central Committee announced the resignation from the Politburo of four radical holdovers from the Maoist era who had participated in the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution campaign against Liu and Deng. Purged were Wang Dongxing, Mao's former bodyguard, Vice Premiers Chen Xilian and Ji Dengkui, and Wu De, a former mayor of Peking...
...neat, and perhaps inevitable, symmetry to the party decisions. Although hardly a liberal, Liu was a pragmatic bureaucrat who, unlike Mao, was willing to sacrifice ideological purity for the sake of economic development. Liu's posthumous rehabilitation thus completed the return to power of bureaucrats like Deng who were purged by Mao. At the same time, the removal of Deng's four chief enemies in the Politburo presumably gives him more freedom to install a new leadership team that will carry out his policies, now as well as after his death...
...Central Committee also reconstituted the Communist Party Secretariat that had been dissolved during the Cultural Revolution. Many analysts believe that the Secretariat will soon become a key decision-making authority within the Politburo. Its new head, Hu Yaobang, is one of Deng's key allies. The Central Committee also elevated Hu and another Deng protege, Zhao Ziyang, to the powerful Standing Committee of the Politburo. Zhao, 61, is considered to be a rising star in Chinese politics and a potential successor to Deng...
...Central Committee also moved to enforce the discipline that Deng believes is necessary to carry out China's ambitious modernization programs. Eliminated from China's constitution was one of its key guarantees, the so-called Four Greats: "the right to speak out freely, air views fully, hold great debates and write big character posters." That decision is bound to inhibit any revival of the democracy movement that flowered in Peking last year. No longer will dissidents be able to attack authorities with the posters that, ironically, flourished during the Cultural Revolution-an era that Deng last week swept...