Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
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Deng cannot simply import another system into China.
He had to develop something as unique as its needs.
By 1977, he's looking over at nations like the UK and the US and thinking, we need to embrace some of what's going on over there, the free market.
But he also doesn't want to go full-on capitalism.
By 1978, newly minted paramount leader Deng Xiaoping wants to carry out his plan to bring wealth to the people of China for maybe the first time in the modern era.
He didn't know exactly how.
Taking a stab at this would be almost like feeling around for the stepping stones as he crossed the river, a favorite saying of his.
He's 74 years old by this point, back in the Communist Party in Beijing.
By now, he's losing his hearing.
There's a meeting with high-ranking members of the party overseeing the government and the military.
From that meeting comes the start of a project, socialism with Chinese characteristics.
It's Deng's brainchild, a system where small private businesses could operate and employees working in those businesses could receive bonuses.
Deng and his comrades argue that in order to reach the communist ideal, China needs to go through capital development.
Under Deng's vision, China would finally open itself up to the world to allow it to rejoin the international system.
And in that good-to-get-rich spirit, Deng went on a big trip to America for some inspiration.
That's after the break.
Watch or listen to It's Been a Minute on the NPR app or YouTube.
So this trip to America is a huge deal.
Deng was the first Chinese communist leader to visit the United States.
It was big news.
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