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From reading Henry Kissinger’s new book On China,1 I have learned that Mr. Kissinger met with Deng Xiaoping at least eleven times more than with any other Chinese leader and that the topic of one of their chats was whether Fang Lizhi would confess and repent.On June 3, 1989, Deng, chair of the Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, ordered tanks from Chinese ....
It is hard to fit Henry Kissinger’s latest book, On China, into any conventional frame or genre. Partly that is because the somewhat self-deprecatory title conceals what is, in fact, an ambitious goal: to make sense of China’s diplomacy and foreign policies across two and a half millennia, and to bring China’s past full circle in order to illuminate the present. ....
Why did communism grow deep roots and survive in China, while it withered and died in Russia? This is one of the central questions of modern history. ....