- Deng Xiaoping was by far our most pragmatic leader.
Deng Xiaoping famously said that "It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice."
Deng Xiaoping has Deng Xiaoping Theory.
Deng Xiaoping continued to rule despite not actually having the highest level title.
Deng Xiaoping comes to power, and we see an opening, where political discourse has liberalized a little bit.
Deng Xiaoping has some claim to perhaps be the single most important reformer of the Chinese 20th century, maybe in some ways
Deng Xiaoping took the fateful-- not fatal, but fateful-- decision that China's communist economy
But somehow Deng Xiaoping was able to break tradition, break convention, come out with this completely new way of thinking
But when Deng Xiaoping said opening up, he was also thinking the world comes to China,
So Deng Xiaoping comes into power and takes a much more pragmatic stance with respect to economic policy-making, basically undoes the command part of the Chinese economy,
So Dung Xiaoping , the leader, talked about crossing the river by feeling the stones.
And his name was Deng Xiaoping .
I was lucky that Deng Xiaoping had asked what happened to the reporter?
There were protests against Deng Xiaoping . The earliest was the democracy wall movement of the late 1970s, which initially Deng Xiaoping thought this was a healthy expression of differences
And I think everybody's grateful to Deng Xiaoping .
that amount of prosperity and peace and opportunity without Deng Xiaoping .
It started in the late 1970s when Deng Xiaoping came out with this open up and reform mandate, and it was very tough.
In 1978, when Deng Xiaoping opened China to the world in 1978-- it's really yesterday-- the Chinese economy
This honor had only been reserved for Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping .
At the time, Deng Xiaoping has already taken over China.
So 20 years ago China started growing in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping decided with his colleagues that they were gonna do somethin' different and they set off on a pretty intelligent market-oriented
is what a famous American said in 1979 when Deng Xiaoping came to America and he was speaking to him.
Under the reform period, under Deng Xiaoping and his successors, the source of legitimacy was performance.
has geopolitical influence, is Deng Xiaoping 's China, not Mao Tse-Tung's China in many ways.
And that last 25 years, from Deng Xiaoping 's time, our XXX leader, he was the one, the first leader after the Cultural
And the secretary talks about the original "hide and bide" strategy that Deng Xiaoping had, and how much has changed.
And that's why I started out with the story about Deng Xiaoping and his other colleagues.
Deng Xiaoping was an intensely practical person.
The different transformations that happened, the different reforms that happened under Deng Xiaoping .
He had been very high up, he had been sort of Deng Xiaoping 's potential successor, and he dies unexpectedly, and there has to be a funeral for him,
So remember, there's Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory.
So after Tiananmen, the leadership, Deng Xiaoping , decided that it had happened because young people didn't
But fortunately, some of these folks, such as Deng Xiaoping , did not give up the dream of making China strong.
So what is interesting to me is that there was a lot of rooting for Deng Xiaoping in the west to succeed in this modernization. The view of Deng Xiaoping changed, when he
That just shows you how wide spread the rooting for Deng Xiaoping was, and now you flash forward to the 21st century.
- All right, so there has been this miracle in the Chinese economy from after Mao under Deng Xiaoping where the Chinese economy
So, it takes Mao dying in 1976 and also Deng Xiaoping coming to
Our perspective is, sure there are cases where somebody has come along and said, like Deng Xiaoping ,
That's also an interesting technique that I haven't got time to go into, but it's also been used by Deng Xiaoping in
And he was telling me that he had read many, many people's-- he reads hand, including Dalai Lama and Deng Xiaoping and so
And it was very shameful and embarrassing to many Chinese at the time, to folks like Deng Xiaoping and Xuan Li, who were the communist party revolutionaries.
Deng Xiaoping was in charge, and he was saying his watch word was the four modernizations.
John Denver, who performed for Dan Xiaoping when he came on a visit, and anybody who lived in China in the 1980s as