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...Washington, and, yes, deal with 100 million tangled telephone lines. By any measure, it was a monumental deal for China. But for Jiang it was even more--a bid to boost his reputation from that of polished technocrat to the more mythical status of ideological leader. Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping--theirs is the kind of status Jiang is bidding...
Such caution has been with Jiang from the moment Deng tapped him to head the party after the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. "I feel as if I am walking on thin ice," Jiang said then, and even now his nervous smile and effete hand wave suggest someone who knows he's treading delicate ground...
Kudos to all the Chinese people who made it through a surreal and dreary half-century [WORLD, Oct. 4]. Mao and Deng Xiaoping were great leaders, but the people who survived their dogmas were greater...
...think the most historic place in China is Tiananmen Square. It was there that Mao gave birth to a beautiful nation in front of a crowd of thousands of optimistic Chinese. Forty years later, it was the very same Tiananmen Square where Deng massacred hopeful Chinese. Now as China celebrates its 50th anniversary, President Jiang Zemin has promised a better future for thousands of hopeful Chinese people. Talk about history repeating itself. MAHESH SUBBA Kathmandu, Nepal...
...interested in what the letter to Deng says," said first-year law student Kevin C. Walsh. "I'm going to buy the book to find...