Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China

A local visitor looks at an oil painting portrait of late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping by South Korean artist Kang Hyung Koo at the Shanghai Art Fair, 17 November 2004. Deng is remembered for leading China through a period of economic transformation. (Photo: AAP)

Author: Joseph Bosco, Washington DC

In his new book, Ezra Vogel gives Deng Xiaoping all the credit he rightly deserves for transforming China’s economic system and bringing higher living standards to hundreds of millions of ordinary Chinese.

But he fails to note that Deng could never have succeeded without the willing and generous support from the West, especially from the US. Read more…