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...Three cobblers with their wits combined equal Zhuge Liang, the master mind," says a Chinese aphorism. To speed up Deng Xiaoping's market-style reforms, China's pragmatic leaders are tapping the mind of a modern-day Zhuge Liang: University of Pennsylvania professor Lawrence Klein. The American Nobel laureate in economics in 1980 was appointed as an adviser to the State Planning Commission, which oversees the industrial sector. They hope Klein's wisdom can help them build a "socialist market economy," Deng's newest oxymoron...
...least $1 million -- or half that in rural or depressed areas -- into an American business that employs 10 or more workers. So, Wu, 22, is injecting $1.1 million, which he got mostly from his family, into a new gas station and car wash in Chula Vista, Calif. David Liang, a San Diego real estate broker who led Wu to the investment, claims there are plenty of other prospective Americans ready to plunk down their money for a fast track to permanent residency, the major step toward citizenship. "This is only my first project," he says. "If it turns out well...
...next victim, according to the Hong Kong press, is likely to be Zhao's political ally Liang Xiang, governor of Hainan, China's newest and most autonomous province. Liang was summoned to Beijing in late July to appear before a panel investigating allegations of corruption on the huge island in the South China Sea. In the governor's absence, Hainan is reportedly being run by a Russian-educated vice governor with close ties to Zhao's conservative, Soviet-trained rival, Premier Li Peng. Meanwhile, the ambitious plans that Deng and Zhao envisioned for Hainan's economic development are on hold...
...feud with Viet Nam. Five people have been killed and 38 wounded by Vietnamese fire. In addition, according to Chinese officials in the Guangxi region, the Vietnamese have laid mines, damaged crops and on occasion sent bundle-toting water buffalo laden with leaflets and other propaganda across the border. Liang Xinghan, 26, a tractor driver in Pingmeng, says that he was wounded in the thigh by an enemy sniper last year. "I don't know why the Vietnamese shot me," he says. "I didn't oppose them or give them any trouble...
...book's lack of direct criticism of the society which allowed such cruelty may be as much a product of Liang's caution after his past troubles as of his belief in communist society. Even his father, always a devoted Maoist, tells him at one point to "never give your opinion on anything...even if you're asked directly. "Liang's book may present an inglorious picture of China's past, but political changes after Mao's death make such a picture politically safe for the author. Deng Xiao-Ping, the new premier, entered office with a movement to discredit...