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Gorbachev, Deng and the heads of almost every Marxist country face the same fundamental problem. In a 1984 interview with the Italian Communist daily L'Unità, Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, phrased it this way: "Since the October Revolution [of 1917, which enthroned Soviet Marxism], more than 60 years have passed. How is it that many socialist countries have not been able to overtake capitalist ones in terms of development? What was it that did not work...
Deng relaxes by swimming and indulging his passion for bridge. He and his wife hold a regular Saturday game at their home in the Western Hills area of Peking, usually with Vice Premier Wan Li and Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang. Deng has a fondness for pomelos, a grapefruit-like citrus fruit grown in Sichuan, and he sometimes places special orders for them. He is also a world-class smoker, lighting one Panda-brand cigarette after another in his meetings and audiences. Deng recently declared to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, "Mine is a hands-off policy...
...leaner People's Liberation Army has been planned for some time, and Communist Party Leader Hu Yaobang announced last week what amounts to a crash diet: China will demobilize 1 million men and women...
Using a specific issue as pretext for a general protest is a classic Chinese political tactic. The 1989 protests that led to the Tiananmen massacre began with a memorial gathering for Hu Yaobang, the disgraced Chinese Communist Party General Secretary. Last week's huge march in Hong Kong against new antisubversion laws (known as Article 23) fit the pattern--with crowds estimated at 500,000, it was the largest pro-democracy protest in China since 1989--as does a rally planned for this week at the city's Legislative Council offices. "It's not just about Article 23," notes Allen...
...editorial was the main reason why the students extended the scope of their protests from commemorations of the late CCP secretary Hu Yaobang to also include a call for more fair evaluations of their movement. The "Tiananmen Papers" also show that the April 26 editorial was the result of much political maneuvering on the part of the conservatives within the CCP, led by Li Peng and Chen Xitong, then mayor of Beijing...