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...time Deng won his second Man of the Year nomination, in 1985, the effect of his "Great Leap Outward" was apparent to everyone. Deng had transformed the world's most populous nation into something like a capitalist country--albeit one still run with a heavy, communist-style hand. That cover story too followed an exclusive interview; this one included not only TIME journalists but also a group of U.S. civic, academic and business leaders who were our guests on a TIME Newstour of Asia...
...Deng Xiaoping did not have much time for small talk, at least not with outsiders. He was an old man in a hurry; he saw visitors, but only if they could advance the central goal of his life--to make China great again. In the many hours of talks I attended with him, he expressed little personal interest in his foreign visitors except for their technology, which he wanted immediately. Once I brought some books for his beloved grandchildren. Without looking at them, he handed them to an aide and started lecturing me about the need for Washington to lift...
...build, or possibly at the memory of some past indignity he had survived on his roller-coaster ride between history and oblivion. His hands gestured constantly, and until his family stopped him, he chain-smoked. To those in thrall to the urbane charm of his old ally Zhou Enlai, Deng seemed crude, speaking with a guttural Sichuanese accent and always keeping a spittoon next to his chair. His size--he was truly tiny--did not seem to diminish him, partly because he exuded enormous energy and sharp focus...
...Revolution, was to undo the crimes and stupidities of the Cultural Revolution, break the communist ideological straitjacket and unleash, as he put it, the creative energy of China. His opposition to superstition and ideology, plus his hostility to the Soviet Union, made him seem more liberal than he was. Deng did not believe his nation could be governed democratically--at least not in this century. Sadly, Tiananmen is part of his legacy...
...once offered Shirley MacLaine a glimpse of his wry wit and burning anger. When he sat next to the famously pro-China actress at a White House state dinner in January 1979, she thanked him for the gracious reception she enjoyed in China in the early '70s. Deng, who had been in exile at that time, replied without a moment's pause, "The people who were your hosts then are in jail...