ANALYSIS: 'To get rich is glorious': How Deng Xiaoping set China on a path to rule the world
Deng Xiaoping could lay claim to being the most significant political leader of the latter part of the 20th century, and one whose legacy continues to expand.It is at least arguable, if not certain, that had it not been for Deng's force of personality and his willingness to take political risks, China would not have embarked in 1978 on an accelerated process of economic development.
History will be a lot kinder to Deng than it will be to Mao, who brought enormous grief to his country in highly destructive political campaigns, culminating in theDeng himself was a victim of these campaigns. He was banished from the Chinese leadership early in the Cultural Revolution until he was rehabilitated in 1973 by his patron, then-Premier Zhou Enlai. He was purged a second time after Zhou died in 1976.
Deng was, without question, an authoritarian figure who believed in the absolute power of the Chinese Communist Party.
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