Word: diplomats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...army, which makes him no threat to anyone in the hierarchy and thoroughly beholden to those who appointed him. As a tough- minded disciplinarian and agile implementer of policy, he is an ideal Secretary. "Deng is once again very much a hands-on leader," said a senior British diplomat...
Other analysts read the elevation of a political neuter like Jiang as a signal that the succession battle between conservatives and liberals is not over. "He's manageable, and he'll serve as a placeholder until this power struggle is sorted out," said an Asian diplomat in Beijing. Still other observers thought Jiang owed his new job to a very recent success: his skillful "big lie" campaign aimed at convincing many Chinese that no civilian massacre ever happened...
...comrades don't understand the situation" in China, in that the revolt was not merely the work of "misguided" people but also that of a truly "rebellious clique." The second version also contained approving references to the "open policy," allowing Chinese ties to the outside. Said a senior Asian diplomat in Beijing: "The line to the world is reassurance. To China, it is terror...
...demonstrators killed in Beijing. The aged conservative revolutionaries surrounding him are out of touch with a population whose majority is under 40 years of age. The P.L.A., contrary to its popular repute, has shown itself to be the regime's, not the people's, army. Said a senior British diplomat last week: "There is not a single institution that has not been besmirched in these past weeks." The threat of civil war has not entirely vanished -- if only as a psychological rather than an actual battle. The students' calls for democracy had unparalleled national support, which may have gone underground...
Ironically, Poland's resounding display of democracy seemed likely to make other Soviet-bloc regimes -- already bedeviled by reformist rumblings -- rethink the wisdom of opening up the electoral process. Said a senior Western diplomat in Warsaw: "It may have been the worst possible result for glasnost in Eastern Europe. Every Communist Party in the region must now be aware that democratization is the beginning...