Word: propagandas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Interestingly, however, the meeting underscored an ideological disagreement that still exists within the party despite Deng's success in moving China away from Maoism. At the closing session, Deng chose to appease hard-liners by emphasizing, "In our propaganda, we must firmly oppose bourgeois liberalism, that is, publicity that favors taking the capitalist road." He continued, "We exert ourselves for socialism not only because socialism provides conditions for faster development of the forces of production than capitalism but also because only socialism can eliminate the greed, corruption and injustice that are inherent in capitalism...
...propaganda value of the base is probably as strong and useful to Castro as when he first used it extensively for such purposes back in the mid '60s. At the only functional gate remaining in the barbed-wire-lined and mine-strewn perimeter, I saw a sign on the Cuban side. Through binoculars I could read it: Territorio Libertad de America. And one of the weekends I was there, we heard that a huge Cuban independence celebration was being held in nearby Guantanamo City. Castro himself was supposed to attend. It's not hard to imagine the type of speech...
...Hong Kong. At first hostile, then complacent, and now accommodative of a "special place" for the Westernized colony in the People's Republic, the leadership of the Chinese Party has found almost every major way to exploit continued Western presence on their land, just as they were once exploited. Propaganda, hard currency, technology, trade--Hong Kong has meant all these things to the PRC. Doctrine apparently died an easy death in the face of these advantages...
...propaganda value, the scapegoat for Cuba's ills, remains. Although less tangible than money or technological knowledge or industrial trade, a lightning rod like Guantanamo can prove invaluable to a young regime like Cuba...
...impression that we may be the villains of the piece and that they're the good guys." State Department officials insist that Soviet rhetoric has not been backed by concrete proposals. Said one top analyst: "We haven't seen anything in their hints that is different from a pure propaganda campaign...