updated Wed. June 19, 2024
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POLITICO Magazine
April 1, 2018
Perhaps it's envy that Xi, the strongest Chinese leader since Deng Xiaoping, effectively just became president for as long as he so chooses. American presidents have long treated Japan as their closest ally in Asia. What if Trump pivoted to China? As Trump told Republican donors at his Mar-a-Lago estateÃâà...
The Japan News
March 30, 2018
By Hiroyuki Sugiyama / Yomiuri Shimbun Senior WriterAt the recently finished annual session of the National People's Congress, Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated that the “reform and opening up” program that had shaped China since it was launched in 1978 by Deng Xiaoping would continue.
The Japan News
March 30, 2018
By Hiroyuki Sugiyama / Yomiuri Shimbun Senior WriterAt the recently finished annual session of the National People's Congress, Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated that the “reform and opening up” program that had shaped China since it was launched in 1978 by Deng Xiaoping would continue.
Asia Times
March 24, 2018
Chinese President Xi Jinping is clearly a clever tactician, but the Group of Seven nations and world markets are left hoping that he is a visionary as well. Photo: Reuters / Arnd Wiegmann. Oh, to be a fly on Xi Jinping's wall. Many Sinologists would pay dearly to be just that as the leader of the most populousÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 11, 2018
The amendment ends a 1982 system enacted by former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping that set a limit of two presidential terms in order to prevent lifelong dictatorship. The move, passed during the communist country's annual parliamentary session in Beijing, has raised concerns both inside China andÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
March 9, 2018
This would be an exceedingly clear signal that the “Deng Xiaoping framework” of Chinese high politics, under which lifelong rule by a single strongman gave way to regular retirement, rotations, and collective decision-making, has collapsed, and that Xi will remain in power for the foreseeable future.
Foreign Policy Research Institute
March 9, 2018
Upon Mao's death, power passed to a very different leader—a pragmatist and reformer named Deng Xiaoping. Deng not only set China on a course of modernization, he also instituted constitutional changes designed to prevent a recurrence of Mao's forty-year despotism. Henceforth, China's leaders wouldÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 6, 2018
Does collective leadership work? And, to what extent are some of the key elements of Deng Xiaoping Theory being negated? While Deng's political reforms created a system that many non-Chinese observers have praised in hindsight given their dismay at the new reforms, the system didn't work very well.
Inquirer.net
March 5, 2018
The abolishment of a lifetime tenure in Chinese leadership was enacted in 1982 by Deng Xiaoping, former politician and Chinese revolutionary, to prevent another bloody dictatorship from happening, as was seen in Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. That enactment will be upturned with theÃâà...
Taiwan News
March 1, 2018
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Plans to establish term limits for Chinese leaders, which current President Xi Jinping (習近平) wants to do away with, date back four decades to Deng Xiaoping (鄧小平), reports said Thursday. Xi has incurred international criticism for his moves, which have earned him accusationsÃâà...
Livemint
February 28, 2018
In terms of leadership style and choice of policies, Xi is more Mao Zedong than Deng Xiaoping. While Mao believed in helping revolutionary movements around the world, Deng's approach was informed by his mantra of “hide your strength, bide your time”. Xi's China is moving back, closer to Mao,Ãâà...
Quartz
February 26, 2018
There have been two transformational leaders in China since Mao Zedong ruled the country with an iron fist. One was Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader in the 1980s who lifted China out of backwardness with economic reforms, highlighted by his motto “Hide your strength, bide your time.” The other isÃâà...
Taiwan News
February 22, 2018
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – China has removed the grandson-in-law of its late leader Deng Xiaoping from the head of the Anbang Insurance Group and is planning to prosecute him, reports said Friday. Wu Xiaohui, who is married to Deng's granddaughter Zhuo Ran, has been under investigation since lastÃâà...
Las Vegas Sun
December 31, 1999
Once passed, the constitutional amendment would upend a system enacted by former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1982 to prevent a return to the bloody excesses of a lifelong dictatorship typified by Mao Zedong's chaotic 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution. "Deng Xiaoping's abolishment of lifetime tenureÃâà...
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