It does not escape the irony that the best biography on Deng happened to be written by a foreigner, an American no less.
This is not too different from how the reason why Deng went for a progressive reform according to Isabel webber’s how China escape shock therapy. Deng initially wanted to initiate reform resembling USSR’s shock therapy, in opposition to the more Conservative (read left wing) of the part of the party and specialists who traveled to Eastern Europe countries to see the ravages of shock therapy. Ironically, it was George Soros who convinced the Party higher ups that it might not be a good idea
his argument is probably that the world needs a party that can crack the whip on the populace in earth’s sweatshop and as China integrates into global capital, the socialistic states will witter away for liberal democratic value to fill in
This is not too different from how the reason why Deng went for a progressive reform according to Isabel webber’s how China escape shock therapy. Deng initially wanted to initiate reform resembling USSR’s shock therapy, in opposition to the more Conservative (read left wing) of the part of the party and specialists who traveled to Eastern Europe countries to see the ravages of shock therapy. Ironically, it was George Soros who convinced the Party higher ups that it might not be a good idea
Comrade Soros defending communism yet again!
his argument is probably that the world needs a party that can crack the whip on the populace in earth’s sweatshop and as China integrates into global capital, the socialistic states will witter away for liberal democratic value to fill in