Young Chinese Say Deng Is the Best
Young Chinese think Deng Xiaoping is the best of all world leaders, while Margaret Thatcher earns top honors as the most respected foreign official, according to a poll published Friday in the People’s Daily.
Seventy-one percent of 8,000 young people polled said Deng is their favorite world statesman and 88% said they prefer him to other Chinese leaders. The paper did not say who ran second.
Britain’s prime minister led the field of most respected foreign leaders with 40% in the poll, conducted nationwide by the independent Peking Social Investigation Institute.
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