Thursday, May 29, 2014
After Mao
On September 9, 1976, Mao Zedong passes away leaving China in a poor state. Next up to bat would be a politician named Deng Xiaoping. Unlike Mao's view on communism, Xiaoping saw things much differently as he visits the United States of America early on in his term. This is very significant as this is something Mao would never do as USA believes firmly in Capitalism. Already people can expect to see a lot of change with this new leader. To allow for the China economy to recover from all of Mao's mistakes that he never admit to, Xiaoping brings the country towards a market economy for the first time. This is not something the normal communist would do as everything should be controlled by the government. He also reformed many other things such as agriculture and industries. By giving the peasants lands under contracts, production was great and overall it was a great idea. Xiaoping encouraged small businesses and yet again another thing communist would never allow. All of these reforms were very successful in helping the economy grow and fix all that Mao had done.
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Deng was very suitable for the next in line and helped reform China a lot. However just like Gorbachev more capitalistic ideas are being thrown into the mix of communism. People didn't want communism and witnessing the fall of the USSR deng didn't want the same thing to happen in China and was responsible for the massacre at the square. If deng was doing so much to reform China, why did he turn on this people?
ReplyDeleteThat is a very good point you make. I think Deng only wanted a strong economy in which he can control without having to give his people all the rights that Capitalistic countries give their people.
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