That being said, I believe Dr. Barnett has weighed both men on the scales of history with rough justice; Nixon and Deng had a global impact that was more to the good than to the bad.
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That being said, I believe Dr. Barnett has weighed both men on the scales of history with rough justice; Nixon and Deng had a global impact that was more to the good than to the bad.
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A.E.:
April 17th, 2007 at 5:54 am
I also think Americans are less familiar with him because of Deng’s very nature. He was not a charismatic revolutionary like Mao, but a calm technocrat.
No one in the days of the guerrilla war against the Nationalists would ever have guessed that such a man would be the father of modern China.
mark:
April 18th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Good points. Deng also artfully faded from public view long before Tiannamen Square.