Chinese Mirror

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The standard picture of contemporary China looks roughly as follows: a group of reactionary octogenarians (Deng Xiaoping, Yang Shangkun, Li Peng, plus friends and relatives) is struggling to maintain power at all costs, for the sheer sake of power, after winning a Politburo battle in late May, 1989, against reformist opponents (Zhao Ziyang, Hu Qili, etc.).

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