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Deng Xiaoping
[ duhng shou-ping; Chinese ղԲ shyou-ping ]
noun
- 1904–97, Chinese Communist leader and China's de facto leader: held various titles in the Communist Party until his official retirement in 1989.
Deng Xiaoping
/ ˈdʌŋ ˈsjaʊpɪŋ /
noun
- Deng Xiaoping19041997MChinesePOLITICS: statesman 1904–97, Chinese Communist statesman; deputy prime minister (1973–76; 1977–80) and the dominant figure in the Chinese government from 1977 until his death. He was twice removed from office (1967–73, 1976–77) and rehabilitated. He introduced economic liberalization, but suppressed demands for political reform, most notably in 1989 when over 2500 demonstrators were killed by the military in Tiananmen Square in Beijing
Deng Xiaoping
- A long-time leader of the Communist party in China , he was purged during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution for criticizing the excesses of Mao Zedong , but he returned to power in the 1970s and guided China on a course of pragmatic economic reforms.
Example Sentences
In a visit to Inner Mongolia in 1992, the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who oversaw China's economic reform, famously said: "The Middle East has oil and China has rare earths".
Deng Xiaoping had survived three political purges under Mao to emerge as one of China's most consequential leaders.
Selling for the same price was a piece signed by former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who is widely credited for opening his country up to the world.
“In the long run, China’s nuclear weapons are just symbolic,” said Deng Xiaoping, China’s leader, in 1983, explaining Beijing’s stance to the visiting Canadian prime minister, Pierre Trudeau.
Mao had died and a new reformist leader, Deng Xiaoping, was in charge.
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