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Teng's modernization campaign has its origins in Premier Chou En-lai's report on the work of the government delivered at the Fourth National People's Congress in 1975. It was the Premier's last publicized appearance outside a hospital (he died of cancer a year later). Chou sketched plans to improve China's agriculture by 1980 as part of "the Four Modernizations" that would "turn a poverty-stricken and backward country into a socialist one with the beginnings of prosperity in only 20 years or more." That report (and the Four Modernizations slogan) is widely believed to have...
...research network for the basic sciences, then a system of modern laboratories that will press on with research into what the Chinese (who have a sort of political fetish for numbers) call the Five Golden Blossoms: atomic science, semiconductors, computer technology, lasers and automation. In March, Vice Premier Fang Yi reported an eight-year timetable for China to begin the launching of space laboratories and probes...
Even by Chinese standards, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing is small in stature (4 ft. 11 in.). Psychologists might argue that his size explains in part Teng's life-long reputation for feistiness, irascibility and driving ambition. He is a highly emotional man, with a reputation for vengefulness. Teng is respected rather than loved by the Chinese, and appears to have cronies and allies rather than friends. For all that, he is China's great survivor; at 74 he has embarked with unflagging energy on the most intrepid political adventure of his life...
...Republic of China was expelled from the U.N. As the "other China" recovered from the shock of learning that Washington and Peking would normalize diplomatic relations this week, the island's mood was one of ever greater resolve and patriotism. Two days after Carter's announcement, Premier Y.S. Sun announced that the government was increasing the defense budget and stepping up a development program for major weapons. Since the U.S. was terminating its 1954 mutual defense treaty with Taiwan, said Sun, the republic had no choice but to "establish a more self-sustaining defense industry...
...with "old friends, including Mr. Chiang Ching-kuo," if the "Taiwan authorities" agreed. That offer was also flatly rejected by the Nationalists. Said Chiang Ching-kuo: "[There is] no way for me to allow these two traitors to come to Taiwan." Other Taiwan officials remained highly skeptical of Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing's assurance to Columnist Robert Novak that China did not intend to lower Taiwan's standard of living after reunification. Said one: "We don't believe a word Teng says. He's a shrewd man, but what he is saying...