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...still uncertain whether Deng's free-market economic reforms are seriously threatened by the current power struggle. While a freeze has been imposed on new economic initiatives, General Secretary Zhao insisted last week that those already in place are "irreversible." But despite such statements, signs of a rollback are cropping up. In the northeastern province of Hebei, the local radio station recently carried a report that peasants with "muddled ideas" have suspended free-enterprise experiments until the political air clears. "Some who have raised capital to set up ((private)) factories dare not set them up now," the report said. Since...
Despite repeated assertions by acting Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang that the campaign against bourgeois liberalization would be restricted to the Communist Party, the conservative movement has now spread to all Chinese institutions. Two weeks ago, the 3.5 million-member People's - Liberation Army signed up. Said a P.L.A. statement: "In view of the characteristics of the armed forces, all cadres, fighters, workers and staff are required to take part in the education ((about the dangers of bourgeois liberalization...
...China, however, had little cause for optimism. Purges of intellectuals continued. An ideological campaign gathered force to rescind many of the political and economic freedoms permitted recently by Hu Yaobang, the Communist Party's General Secretary, removed from his post two weeks ago and replaced by Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang. With Fang Lizhi and Author Wang Ruowang already tossed out of the party for advocating "bourgeois liberalism," the purge turned last week to the president and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who were removed from office. They had been responsible for the administration of the rebellious university...
...Deng's sweeping economic reforms, aimed at modernizing agriculture and industry through the use of Western-style technology and limited free-market mechanisms? On the questions of economic and foreign policy, China's two top leaders sought to give assurances that no drastic shifts were in the works. Zhao told a visiting Hungarian official last week that the "personnel changes will not affect our line and policies." Speaking with another visitor, Deng noted that "China needs further opening" to the outside world. The country's "mistakes," he added, "were due to demanding too much and moving too fast." That appeared...
...Deng selected to replace Hu as Communist Party chief is unlikely to press for greater political freedom. Zhao, 67, who will hold the title of acting General Secretary until the Central Committee confirms his appointment, is an agricultural expert who heartily embraces Deng's economic reforms. As No. 3 in the hierarchy, he has been regarded as less liberal than Hu on political matters, and considerably less outspoken. After a month of unruly students, that seems to be just what Deng wants...