Move in China
Accolades to Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping for replacing the aging leaders of the Central Committee and Politburo, with new, younger, better educated technocrats.
If Deng and his heirs succeed in their modernization of China, it will be similar to the modernization of feudal Japan, magnified 10,000 times.
MONROE LEUNG
Beverly Hills
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