Another great injustice inflicted on China. But just one of countless similar ones. That is all part of history. I am glad that entirely through the hard work of the Chinese people, led by their government, China has now reached a state in which it does not tolerate such injustices, and in fact no longer needs to.
The CIA's analysis of their Tiananmen failure was quite sophisticated: they expected Chinese students to be as easily aroused as most adolescents and they underestimated the impact of the Cultural Revolution.
Mao had taught them the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People and they followed his game plan to the letter.
Unmentioned in the Western media is the fact that they got all four of their demands met, including Deng's retirement.
It was the only successful revolution of the 1960s, and millions gather every year to celebrate their emancipation from illiteracy and disease and retell the tales of their youth.
Good coverage of the attempted Western counter-revolution, the West went all in to overthrow the CPC and thankfully failed.
The decade 1979 to 1989 can hardly be called "Deng Xiaoping’s disastrous decade" when the economy expanded by 160% in that decade. Deng's whole point was to expand the productive forces.
It would have been the disastrous decade if the liberal external and internal economists had won out for a further "big bang" deregulation. Thankfully, better insights won out and a period of economic consolidation and political re-centering was carried out. Mao has been subject to much Western and even some Chinese negative propaganda, we need a balanced approach to both Mao and Deng.
Deng's decade really was disastrous. Life expectancy fell for the first and only time in PRC history, massive crime and prostitution returned and 22% inflation triggered the Tiananmen demonstrations: "It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, so long as the cat resigns".
Two friends who lived through it:
Mobo Gao: "There are a few complex issues involved here: How to measure income and poverty? In money terms or in material consumption? Or in service? Or all of them? For instance residents in the urban sector in the socialist period enjoyed virtually free housing, free education and health care. How to measure them?
The system of ration showed scarcity of daily necessity products on the one hand but was also a measure to safeguard a basic supply for everyone which mean above object poverty.
I think the former premier Li Keqiang reminded everyone that there was 15% (I cannot remember exactly and those who do please correct me on this) Chinese earns only 1000RMB per month now. One can hardly survive with this income in the urban sector. If you live in the countryside and work to grow your own food then it is OK.
The paper’s reference to “extreme poverty worsened during China’s reforms” meant the late 1980s and early 1990s I think. This is both documented by Dorothy Solinger for the urban sector and my first Gao Village book for instance for the rural sector.
The paper does not tackle the issue of China’s change of development strategies: in the socialist period until the late 1970s, China focused on development of heavy and defence industries hence light industries for consumer goods were sidelined. Poverty in rural China was one consequence of this strategy by which capital accumulation had to be extracted from the rural sector hence the term of 价格剪刀差
The poverty in rural China during the socialist period was compensated somewhat by the expanding health and education services, particularly during and towards the end of the Cultural Revolution.
Dongping Han: "I have been doing research in the Chinese countryside since 1985. I would agree with the assessment that extreme poverty in the countryside worsened than during the Mao era. In Mao's time, the poor were taking care of by the state and local governments. Apart from getting their equal share from the production teams, they also got relief from the state, the commune and the village on a regular basis. Neighbors also helped. But after the land was divided up, the help from the state and local government and the village literally stopped. Particularly those who did not have children had to struggle hard. I met quite a few old men and women in the rural areas who were over 80s had still to struggle to get enough to eat on their own. It is true that Xi Jinping increased the spending in the rural areas significantly, but it is hard for the very poor to get the help they need. More often the money were spent by the local and village officials. The capitalist reform rendered many local officials and local people cold toward the poor and needy people. In general, the communist officials had changed in their attitude toward the poor people, which is a fundamental issue. When I was growing up, the local communist officials made sure that the poor were being taken care of. They would visit these families on a regular basis, and on the holidays, they would make sure that the poor got the necessities for a good holiday. They do not do that any more today. To be poor is to be despised by everybody". [email to me]
Another great injustice inflicted on China. But just one of countless similar ones. That is all part of history. I am glad that entirely through the hard work of the Chinese people, led by their government, China has now reached a state in which it does not tolerate such injustices, and in fact no longer needs to.
It was a CIA rus ewhich failed
The CIA's analysis of their Tiananmen failure was quite sophisticated: they expected Chinese students to be as easily aroused as most adolescents and they underestimated the impact of the Cultural Revolution.
Mao had taught them the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People and they followed his game plan to the letter.
Unmentioned in the Western media is the fact that they got all four of their demands met, including Deng's retirement.
It was the only successful revolution of the 1960s, and millions gather every year to celebrate their emancipation from illiteracy and disease and retell the tales of their youth.
The USA could certainly use one now!
Good coverage of the attempted Western counter-revolution, the West went all in to overthrow the CPC and thankfully failed.
The decade 1979 to 1989 can hardly be called "Deng Xiaoping’s disastrous decade" when the economy expanded by 160% in that decade. Deng's whole point was to expand the productive forces.
It would have been the disastrous decade if the liberal external and internal economists had won out for a further "big bang" deregulation. Thankfully, better insights won out and a period of economic consolidation and political re-centering was carried out. Mao has been subject to much Western and even some Chinese negative propaganda, we need a balanced approach to both Mao and Deng.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/chn/china/gdp-growth-rate
Deng's decade really was disastrous. Life expectancy fell for the first and only time in PRC history, massive crime and prostitution returned and 22% inflation triggered the Tiananmen demonstrations: "It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, so long as the cat resigns".
Two friends who lived through it:
Mobo Gao: "There are a few complex issues involved here: How to measure income and poverty? In money terms or in material consumption? Or in service? Or all of them? For instance residents in the urban sector in the socialist period enjoyed virtually free housing, free education and health care. How to measure them?
The system of ration showed scarcity of daily necessity products on the one hand but was also a measure to safeguard a basic supply for everyone which mean above object poverty.
I think the former premier Li Keqiang reminded everyone that there was 15% (I cannot remember exactly and those who do please correct me on this) Chinese earns only 1000RMB per month now. One can hardly survive with this income in the urban sector. If you live in the countryside and work to grow your own food then it is OK.
The paper’s reference to “extreme poverty worsened during China’s reforms” meant the late 1980s and early 1990s I think. This is both documented by Dorothy Solinger for the urban sector and my first Gao Village book for instance for the rural sector.
The paper does not tackle the issue of China’s change of development strategies: in the socialist period until the late 1970s, China focused on development of heavy and defence industries hence light industries for consumer goods were sidelined. Poverty in rural China was one consequence of this strategy by which capital accumulation had to be extracted from the rural sector hence the term of 价格剪刀差
The poverty in rural China during the socialist period was compensated somewhat by the expanding health and education services, particularly during and towards the end of the Cultural Revolution.
Dongping Han: "I have been doing research in the Chinese countryside since 1985. I would agree with the assessment that extreme poverty in the countryside worsened than during the Mao era. In Mao's time, the poor were taking care of by the state and local governments. Apart from getting their equal share from the production teams, they also got relief from the state, the commune and the village on a regular basis. Neighbors also helped. But after the land was divided up, the help from the state and local government and the village literally stopped. Particularly those who did not have children had to struggle hard. I met quite a few old men and women in the rural areas who were over 80s had still to struggle to get enough to eat on their own. It is true that Xi Jinping increased the spending in the rural areas significantly, but it is hard for the very poor to get the help they need. More often the money were spent by the local and village officials. The capitalist reform rendered many local officials and local people cold toward the poor and needy people. In general, the communist officials had changed in their attitude toward the poor people, which is a fundamental issue. When I was growing up, the local communist officials made sure that the poor were being taken care of. They would visit these families on a regular basis, and on the holidays, they would make sure that the poor got the necessities for a good holiday. They do not do that any more today. To be poor is to be despised by everybody". [email to me]