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...shouting slogans like "Long Live the Great People," massed in a corner of Peking's Tiananmen Square last week. They were protesting among other things Japanese "economic aggression," Tokyo's reputed flooding of China with defective and overpriced goods under the open-door economic policies of Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping. Security officials with loudspeakers ordered the protesters to disperse, and after about two hours they...
...fact that so many demonstrators showed up despite the official pressure is a sign that campus discontent in Peking goes beyond anti-Japanese sentiments. Many students resent the fact that the benefits of Deng's reformist economic policies have gone to members of a Chinese elite that includes the well-connected children of Communist officials. The favored youth have a far better chance than most of getting good jobs or traveling abroad after graduation. Faced with a steep rise in the cost of living as a result of the reforms, many students are finding their already spartan daily lives less...
Some diplomats believe that the protests have been encouraged by Communist Party conservatives who are still fighting a rearguard action against Deng's reforms. Others accuse the government of encouraging anti-Japanese sentiment as a means of boosting national feelings. Whatever the reason, it may not have been a coincidence that the Peking government last week announced plans to remove, in the interests of beautification, the large billboards that advertise Japanese products along the capital's main avenue...
...Trump would be an ex-People's Liberation Army soldier who majored in drainage at the Lanzhou Railroad College? But Wang Shi, who made a spectacular decision in 1984 when he moved to a tiny backwater called Shenzhen, is the country's most successful real estate mogul. He heeded Deng Xiaoping's call to explore the virtues of capitalism, starting a trading company that moved everything from copy machines to the odd crate of shellfish. Although private property was still a dirty word in communist China, in 1993 Wang invested in real estate. He had heard of a man named...
...Although I care about international and domestic affairs and actively participate in Communist Party activities, I study other things in a passive way. In my leisure time ... I rarely study Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Three Represents." ?For a student...