Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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China, Deng told President Jimmy Carter in 1979, would need a long period of peace to realize its full modernization. To accomplish that, he added, China would also need Western money and know-how. Flinging open the doors, he led China on a capitalist drive from which there is no turning back...
...handily gathered up the reins of power. Well, it would not be China or the Communist Party if that were true. Even under the red emperors Mao Zedong and Deng, as with the real emperors of the past, there were constant plots and purges. But Chinese and Western experts do generally agree that none of Jiang's potential rivals have the strength to replace him in the short term...
...Faith, Western civilization and patriotism come off like tired middle class values, propped up by the likes of Peninsula editors. Surely, Peninsula, that vigorous basher of the liberal status quo, has not slipped into apologies for the two car family? It is not the fate of the magazine that interests me, however. If the former gadflies want to slip into a premature middle age, that is not my concern. But they will not drag faith and Western civilization after them...
This is the rub, of course. Western civilization is not the tired-out conventionalism as Peninsula would have you believe. There are sources of great and invigorating wisdom in the old antheap, and we should take such counsel wherever we can get it. In our foraging, however, we must be careful, unlike our fellows over at Peninsula, not to mistake irreverence for unbelief...
BEIJING: The most notable part of Madeleine Albright's brief, one-day visit to China was that it happened at all. The Secretary of State was the only Western leader permitted to visit Beijing during a six-day mourning period following the death of Deng Xiaoping, a development Albright said was "an extremely good sign" that China will move toward even greater cooperation with Albright's mission: to press China's leadership on human rights. According to a New York Times report, China is close to a deal that would include signing two key U.N. covenants on human rights...