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President Hu Jintao of CHINA, who travels to Washington next week, leads a country whose economic might is in many ways the legacy of Deng Xiaoping, the first top Communist Chinese leader to visit...
...country whose combination of capitalist economy and communist government has been a delicate balancing act, Hu's harkening back to socialist values could backfire, giving new life to a long-hibernating political faction. For years, as previous rulers Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin championed the market economy, a core of old-guard leftists in the Communist Party seethed. As long as China's economy grew and citizens traded in bicycles for fancy cars, though, they couldn't complain too loudly...
Small, economically developed countries aren't the only ones that have created science-friendly cultures: 54% of the staff at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an astonishing 81% of the scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences are people who have returned from abroad. Deng Hongkui's story is typical. When he went to the U.S. in 1989 for postgraduate study in virology, he thought he would go back to China only to visit family and friends. But in 2000 he returned as director of one of Peking University's newest research centers. Deng was promised his own team...
...time a leader, active or retired, provided such insightful answers with the candor, wisdom and honesty that Lee gave TIME. Not once did I feel the slightest hint of prevarication or evasion from Lee. Different people will have different measures of a leader's success, and names like Mao, Deng and Gandhi will always inspire debates about comparative greatness. But the mere fact that Lee can be mentioned in the same breath as those leaders is proof enough of his greatness. That Singapore is small does not diminish the feats of Lee Kuan Yew. To me, he will always...
...TIME: Who's the most impressive person you've met in your public life? LEE: Deng Xiaoping...