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...with the radical innovations such as profits and private ownership that Deng, 82, has begun. On the other are mostly aging hard-liners determined to slow or roll back Deng's reforms and quiet the winds of Western-style democratic change, which they derisively label "bourgeois liberalization." Led by Peng Zhen, 85, chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress, the conservatives showed their power in the ouster of Hu, Deng's hand-picked successor, who was fired for failing to crack down on massive student demonstrations last December that called for democratic freedoms...
...emerging as Deng's leading rival is another octogenarian, Peng Zhen, 84, chairman of the National People's Congress and a Marxist of the old school. Peng, a contender for top party posts in the early 1960s, was purged in 1966. He is reported to be bitter that he has never been elevated by Deng to the party's top echelon. However, he has turned the Congress, once a legislative rubber stamp, into a center for opposition to Deng's reforms...
...struggle intensifies, the political chill among intellectuals grows deeper, with new purges taking place weekly. Papers carry almost daily articles about the need for ideological control, and five weeks ago, Mao's strictures about art and literature serving the people, which were delivered in 1942, were suddenly resuscitated by Peng...
Students are also being singled out for a clampdown. All Chinese universities have launched new ideological indoctrination courses with the spring term. Vice Premier Li Peng, a conservative who chairs the state Education Commission, said last week that only those with "political integrity are to be regarded as qualified students." Political tests for students were last seen during the Cultural Revolution. Another top education official called last week for students to be sent to factories and farms to be "integrated with reality and physical labor" -- another Maoist prescription...
China's power struggle is likely to continue at least until the 13th Communist Party Congress in September. In the meantime, Deng and the other reformers will be trying to push their people into top posts, while Peng Zhen and the conservatives try to turn back the changes that Deng has introduced in recent years...