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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Chinese political leader who was the de facto ruler in the People's Republic of China from the late 1970s until 1989. He attempted to modernize the socialist system in China, but his reputation suffered due to his sanctioning of the army's violent suppression of the pro-democracy protest in Tiananmen Square (1989), and he officially retired shortly thereafter.
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- noun Chinese communist statesman (1904-1997)
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[49] In China, the Chinese Communist Party has led a transition from the command economy of the Mao period to an economic program they term the Deng Xiaoping, the leadership of China embarked upon a program of market-based reform that was more sweeping than had been Soviet leader program of the late 1980s.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2008
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"I thought people called Deng Xiaoping a master of bridge only because he was Deng Xiaoping," recalled Nie, Deng's bridge partner for almost ten years.
Archive 2005-10-01 Sun Bin 2005
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"I thought people called Deng Xiaoping a master of bridge only because he was Deng Xiaoping," recalled Nie, Deng's bridge partner for almost ten years.
Hu should be playing bridge? Sun Bin 2005
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And yet one wonders how Zhou could have watched as his closest friends and oldest allies, men such as Deng Xiaoping and wives and families, were cast aside and made to suffer-quite cruelly in the case of the terminally ill Liu-to satisfy Mao's revolutionary vision.
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I thought it was time to rebalance our relationship with the Communist world, recognizing China as a major power alongside the Soviet Union, and I thought we could do a lot to encourage the political and economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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I thought it was time to rebalance our relationship with the Communist world, recognizing China as a major power alongside the Soviet Union, and I thought we could do a lot to encourage the political and economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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I thought it was time to rebalance our relationship with the Communist world, recognizing China as a major power alongside the Soviet Union, and I thought we could do a lot to encourage the political and economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Wu Jinglian , the doyen of Chinese economists, has been credited with repeatedly invigorating debates over the government's complicated role in China's fast-track economy since leader Deng Xiaoping inaugurated the reform era in 1978.
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This was the first instance of "one country, two systems," a model Deng Xiaoping later championed with respect to Hong Kong.
An Open Door for Tibet? Mary Beth Markey 2011
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The phrase was invented by a Chinese academic named Zheng Bijian, but it encapsulated the philosophy laid out by Deng Xiaoping.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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