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...original "red capitalist" who helped open China's economy to the world; in Beijing. Rong, who opted to stay on the mainland after the 1949 communist takeover while other industrialists fled abroad, was forced to sweep streets and haul coal during the Cultural Revolution before he was rehabilitated by Deng Xiaoping to help promote international commerce during the economic reforms of the 1980s. His China International Trust & Investment Corporation became a key player in attracting foreign capital, and although the billionaire was never a member of the Communist Party, he served as China's Vice President from...
...picture, an ultimately informative book about a figure ever ready for re-examination. It's hard to forgive a man who was so obsessed with petty, vindictive politics that after the 1976 Tangshan earthquake killed hundreds of thousands of Chinese, he presided over a campaign against his rival Deng Xiaoping that demanded that rescuers halt their work to "denounce Deng on the ruins." Maybe it's time to get that fifth finger back in the air again...
...Nations' 60th anniversary celebration, continues the series of encounters between top American and Chinese leaders that started in 1972. With each meeting, the drama and historical import has diminished. That's a positive thing, a sign of how profoundly the U.S.-China relationship has deepened in three decades. When Deng Xiaoping met Jimmy Carter in the White House in 1979?memorable quote: "Has your Congress passed a law that I cannot smoke?"?the bamboo curtain had just been prized open: full diplomatic relations between the two countries were only four weeks old, and the first imports from China?lots...
Your Man of the Year articles on China and Deng Xiaoping made me realize that if Deng's system succeeds, then China could pose an even greater economic challenge to the U.S. than Japan. It may be a bumpy ride in the world economy of the 21st century. Frank Meier Boca Raton, Fla. Censuring Censors...
Your analysis of the economic reform being introduced in China under Deng Xiaoping was excellent. It would have been even more interesting had you mentioned that the concept of making all land common property and paying rent to the state for its use under a "contract system," with surplus production going to the free market, is a direct application of the theory published by the American writer Henry George in Progress and Poverty, in 1879. The parallel is so close I wonder whether Deng has the book in his library. Douglas Denby, President John Cabot International College Rome...