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...Victor Gao, a former Chinese diplomat who translated for late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, said Xi wanted to ensure the US was sincere about not “hollowing out” the one-China policy following high-level...
...Now, for the first time since former leader Deng Xiaoping’s exit from key party roles in 1989, the elite seven-member group has been stacked with the leader’s own people....
...Rebuffing such criticism, Victor Gao, a former Chinese diplomat and translator for Deng, argues that China needs a prolonged period of decisive leadership that Xi has proven himself able to deliver....
...Victor Shih, a professor of Chinese political economy at the University of California, San Diego, believes the wave of capital flight marked a critical turning point for the powerful leader....
...China under Deng Xiaoping developed the “one country, two systems” formula for easing the incorporation of Hong Kong into the nation, not to preserve freedom and the rule of law in Hong Kong but to allow...
...Jiang was China’s president after Deng Xiaoping who had been the country’s paramount leader. Zeng was Jiang’s vice-president and his right-hand man....
...“If Nato wants to branch out to the Asia-Pacific region, be our guest,” says Victor Gao, a former translator for Deng and Chinese diplomat....
...Deng Xiaoping’s daughter once told a Jardine Matheson executive that “if you are the biggest bird in the tree, you are bound to get shot at”....
...“We don’t demand that they be in favour of China’s socialist system,” Deng Xiaoping, then China’s paramount leader, said. “We only ask them to love the motherland and Hong Kong.”...
...“I don’t see it as such a big snub because Deng’s policies have been snubbed for a decade already,” says Victor Shih, an expert in Chinese politics at the University of California San Diego....
...But the Hong Kong government’s decision to in effect expel Victor Mallet, the Asia news editor for the Financial Times, has finally pushed some representatives of the international business community to...
...The first generation of billionaires like Mr Li were trusted advisers to Communist leaders such as Deng Xiaoping as they sought expertise and capital during the “reform and opening up” of China’s economy...
...But its ties to the Deng family and other influential princelings soon turned into a liability....
...In China, Mr Johnson is seen as “unconventional and unorthodox”, according to Victor Gao, who once served as translator to Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader....
...Yet this was also the view of the Chinese delegation accompanying Mr Deng, who were concerned it might have had the blessing of someone “higher up”, said Victor Gao, who joined the Foreign Ministry a few...
...Like victors elsewhere, the party has been writing its version of history — and expunging rival narratives — ever since....
...in 20 years a US presidential election and a Chinese Communist party leadership transition have coincided and the first time that the country’s top Communist has not been chosen by either Mao Zedong or Deng...
...The Party survived that crisis in part because it had a strong paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, who commanded the unswerving loyalty of the Party and the military, which carried out the bloody crackdown....
...The stakes are extremely high as the victors will set the policy agenda for the world’s second-largest economy and wield enormous power over a fifth of humanity....
...It is the biggest transformation of the region since Deng Xiaoping’s “southern tour” in 1992 boosted the growth of China’s special economic zones....
...Delano Roosevelt, “the greatest statesman of the 20th century”, to Deng Xiaoping, “the most substantial political philosopher of the 20th century; his policies changed a quarter of the world”....
...First implemented in the 1950s, the hukou system ensured that the peasantry, which broadly supported and sustained Mao Zedong’s communist revolution, did not follow the victors into the cities....
...He also worked in China’s foreign ministry in the 1980s when he was a translator for former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping....
...The wisdom of the founder of the party I belong to, whose name was Víctor Raúl Haya de La Torre, can be seen in his proposal in the 1930s – when the world was beginning to split between a rather harsh form...
...That part of Deng’s legacy will be well and truly buried on Friday when the Beijing Olympics start....
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