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...The “one country, two systems” pledge made by China’s former paramount leader Deng Xiaoping is spelt out in the city’s Basic Law, its mini-constitution....
...Deng Xiaoping was a pragmatic (and ruthless) genius. He allowed the Chinese economy to become open, dynamic and remarkably free....
...He recommends a return to the free market reforms of Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China’s economic opening-up from the late 1970s on....
...The formula’s sentence structure mirrored guidance handed down by the late reform-era leader Deng Xiaoping more than 30 years ago that counselled strategic patience on foreign relations....
...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....
...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....
...The next day, his adult son was hurried aboard a flight to Canada — and, Zhang hoped, to safety....
...Red Roulette centres on Shum and Duan’s relationship with “Auntie Zhang”, as they called the ex-premier’s wife....
...In the 1980s and 1990s, when Deng Xiaoping was encouraging market-oriented reforms, Zhang was celebrated for his capitalist innovations, such as founding China’s first shareholding company....
...There have been several histories of the period published in China (all meticulously footnoted here), and in more liberal periods, movies such as Zhang Yimou’s To Live (1994) have showed aspects of the horror...
...Citic’s parent company was established in 1979 at the behest of Deng Xiaoping and was a pioneer in China’s experiments with capitalism....
...But then Ma flew to Beijing and met with Liu’s boss, Zhang Mao....
...In a commentary on similar themes, Sheng Hong, executive director of the Unirule Institute of Economics, a liberal think-tank, warned that China is at risk of abandoning Deng Xiaoping’s post-1978 “reform...
...the People in the midst of a global pandemic that erupted in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, knowing that his government now faces the most daunting set of economic and financial challenges since Deng Xiaoping...
...Zhang Lifan, an independent political commentator in Beijing, said the statement was a reference to the Communist party’s political authority....
...But some are hopeful the slowing economy will force their hand, much as it did Deng Xiaoping’s in the wake of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre....
...In his 2011 biography of Deng Xiaoping, however, American historian Ezra Vogel credits that insight to Deng in 1977....
...Deng Xiaoping, the country’s former “paramount ruler”, is credited with launching the economic reforms that powered its remarkable rise at a meeting of the Communist party’s Central Committee that opened...
...Additional reporting by Archie Zhang...
...Additional reporting by Archie Zhang in Beijing Mountain Pass: new mine owner targets ‘transformation’ in supply High up in the mountains of California on the border with Nevada, the US’s only rare earth...
...“Look at Zhang Yimou,” he says, referring to the director of iconic films such as Raise the Red Lantern. “Don’t be distracted by the traditional Chinese costumes....
...Additional reporting by Xinning Liu and Archie Zhang...
...In the years following Mao’s death in 1976, his supporters were forced out and Deng Xiaoping rose to power....
...Vice premier Zhang Gaoli said a series of projects for the development of transportation, ecology and industry in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region had shown good results....
...“It’s the hardest time for Xi since he assumed power,” said Zhang Lifan, a Beijing-based historian and prominent critic of the Chinese Communist party....
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