China\'s Quest. The History of the Foreign Relations of the People\'s Republic of China - John Garver

460 { China’s Quest were well received by his university audiences, if not by the CCP authorities in charge of the schools where ...

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463 17 } 1989: The CCP’s Near Escape and Its Aftermath Socialism in One Country: The Last Major Leninist Regime 1989 was a turni ...

464 { China’s Quest Modern political systems legitimize political authority through a process of free and full debate followed b ...

1989: The CCP’s Near Escape } 465 full contours of this covert US-Vatican support would not become known until much later, count ...

466 { China’s Quest An even more powerful example of what was possible was Mikhail Gorbachev, who for several years had been int ...

1989: The CCP’s Near Escape } 467 On May 17, the Politburo Standing Committee split over the question of declaring martial law t ...

468 { China’s Quest as a direct challenge to the party’s traditional mechanisms of dictatorial rule and, explicitly or implicitl ...

1989: The CCP’s Near Escape } 469 of law,” the existing situation of “rule by men” needed to be changed. Socialist nations shoul ...

470 { China’s Quest obstruction, according to the MSS. Petitions and protest telegrams were flooding into central organs, the MS ...

1989: The CCP’s Near Escape } 471 In the event, the perspective that won out was not Zhao Ziyang’s. The dominant view was that t ...

472 { China’s Quest complexity to transition to democracy. China in the 1980s seemed to be on the right course. The experiences ...

1989: The CCP’s Near Escape } 473 The US Strategy of “Peaceful Evolution” Within China, the Beijing Massacre produced a powerful ...

474 { China’s Quest might vary, but the essence remained the same: “to cultivate so-called demo- cratic forces within socialist ...

1989: The CCP’s Near Escape } 475 report. Western journalists were “aggressively collecting” information and “spreading it” to t ...

476 { China’s Quest socialism. ...The bottom line of this turmoil is extremely clear: Its bot- tom line is death to our Party an ...

1989: The CCP’s Near Escape } 477 The social movement that gave rise to and then which was led by the CCP ended China’s humilia ...

478 { China’s Quest Provinces established their own Patriotic Education Bases. Some provinces set up Leading Groups to promote t ...

1989: The CCP’s Near Escape } 479 journals. Quite possibly, an individual would not encounter information challenging the politi ...