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Sunday, October 19, 2014

China is again slowly turning in on itself

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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