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What Deng Taught Xi

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Oct 01, 2013
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When Xi Jinping became leader of the Chinese Communist Party, he chose the location of his first official visit carefully. He did not pay tribute at Mao's tomb, or tour the rural heartland of Hu Jintao. Instead, the new General Secretary travelled to Shenzhen, a prosperous special economic zone once overseen by his father. There he laid flowers at a bro…

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