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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But with that amount of change, that quickly, a completely different Communist Party presided over the country.
The Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Students protested for a different China.
But the government imposed martial law.
The tail end of the Soviet Union's existential threat to capitalism already happened.
The protests in Tiananmen Square are no accident.
It's an eruption, an extension of Deng's vision of opening up the country.
The protesters argued that for the country to be truly modern, it should embrace democracy.
Deng ordered the military to crush demonstrators, with estimates between hundreds or possibly thousands of deaths.
There was international outcry.
The massacre threatened China's future and Deng's progress.
Would Deng Xiaoping be a part of China's future?
Could communism survive in China after such a public catastrophe?
The shorter answer?
Yes and yes.
Following the events in 1989, Deng, then nearing his late 80s, retreated from view, his image tainted by the bloody demonstrations.
He was old and perhaps his reign as the key architect of China's economic reform had come to a close.
But Deng Xiaoping was a man who had been twice purged by Chairman Mao himself.
In January of 1992, at the age of 87, Deng did something extraordinary once again.
He goes on a southern tour of China.
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