Editorial - Chinese Checkers

Winnipeg Free Press (October 25, 2007)

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Optimistic Sinophiles, however, should not be buying shares in Chinese newspapers just yet in anticipation of a new era of freedom. Mr. [Xi]'s career has surprising parallels with [Deng Xiaoping]'s. Deng was once considered China's great hope for political reform, and he presided over the Tiananmen Square massacre. Five years is a long time in politics anywhere, but it can be an even longer time in China.

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Editorial - Chinese Checkers

CHINA'S old-guard, hard-line Communists would have the world believe that change is in the wind, that a new generatio...

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