By Carl Minzner
Los Angeles Times - OCTOBER 19, 2014
Deng Xiaoping is back … but only on television.
This year — the
110th anniversary of his birth — Beijing is sparing no expense to
commemorate the former leader who launched China's modern reform era in
the late 1970s, bringing decades of blazing economic growth and steady
resurgence as a world power.
Unsurprisingly, Deng's mantle is
being deployed for political ends. A new 48-episode documentary on his
life airing on state networks draws a thinly veiled analogy between Deng
and Xi Jinping, China's current top leader. The suggestion is clear. Xi
is a new Deng. And when top Communist Party leaders assemble at their
annual conference this week, China will witness a revival of the spirit
of reform.
But China's reform era is over. A different — and more unstable — one is dawning.
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