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...LIKE MAO ZEDONG BEFORE HIM, Deng Xiaoping has been forced to abandon a hand-picked successor and loyal supporter for committing grave political errors. Deng should have the personal prestige, like Mao again, to ride out this considerable reverse. But the history of Mao's cultural revolution should warn Deng that the demotion of Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang may have started the rot not stopped...
...Some Chinese have members of their direct families living in Taiwan. How anybody can deny them the right to see their dear ones, I don't understand," Han said. When the communists under Mao Zedong gained control of China in 1949, the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-Shek took refuge on the nearby island of Taiwan...
...crowd of 433 heard three participants in a panel discussion called "China: On the Road to Capitalism?" address the changes in China's economy since the death of its long-time leader Mao Zedong...
Although Mao Zedong (Mao Tsetung) publicly disdained atomic weapons as paper tigers. China was determined to develop a nuclear capability whatever the cost and sacrifice--if necessary, "going without trousers," in the words of a former foreign minister...
...Zedong's Cultural Revolution had shut down the universities and students were ordered to the countryside to live as peasants. For those who refused to go, no jobs would be available in the cities...