Word: yaobang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could say we have wasted 20 years." Even in the relatively candid mood prevalent in Chinese ruling circles, that assessment from Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang was blunt. In an article published last month in the current-affairs magazine Outlook, Hu blamed "radical leftist nonsense" for Communism's failure to meet the economic goals set after the 1949 revolution. Specifically, he warned that China can "never again afford" notions promoted by Mao Tse-tung during the 1958-59 Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s. Hu's observations about the turbulent past highlighted China...
...original remark was attributed to a recent address by Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, an impulsive speaker who has required public correction before, and reflects the thinking of Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping. The remark was misinterpreted abroad as a major ideological shift, evidently persuading Chinese reformers to qualify Hu's words for fear of inciting a back lash among party conservatives. "Such a fuss is the last thing we wanted," said a Chinese intellectual. "We need a quiet revolution...
...aims at the elimination of poverty." But many politically "conservative" Chinese, who still believe that penury is a virtue, may feel that the new brand of socialism sounds suspiciously like capitalism. In the highest echelons, Deng has been supported by Premier Zhao Ziyang and General Secretary Hu Yaobang, but has evidently run into some stiff resistance over the pace of his program from the three other members of the influential Politburo Standing Committee: President Li Xiannian, former Planning Czar Chen Yu and Marshal Ye Jianying, a Communist leader for half a century who may be the last party luminary strong...
...Peking an impromptu convoy of bicyclists waving flags headed for the U.S. embassy; security guards kept them from getting too close, but the crowd was in a jubilant mood. Even matters of state were momentarily put aside: the volleyball result was passed on to Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang in the midst of a luncheon for visiting North Korean Premier Kang Song San. "Good! Good!" exclaimed...
...hours over the two days, most of that time around a conference table in a chamber of the Great Hall of the People. At Friday's sessions more than a dozen officials from each country faced each other across an expanse of green felt. Feisty, hard-line Hu Yaobang hectored Reagan about supposed American misapprehensions of Chinese foreign policy. The chemistry between the two, admitted one U.S. official "was not all that terrific." Nevertheless, Reagan was handing out invitations to visit Washington as if they were jelly beans, and Hu accepted his. The three hours of discussions with Premier...