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Source/Further reading:
Britannica, overview: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Deng-Xiaoping?
NYTimes, obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/20/world/deng-xiaoping-a-political-wizard-who-put-china-on-the-capitalist-road.html?
Contemporary LA Times report on Deng's death: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-02-20-mn-30643-story.html?
Literary Review, Deng's dark side: https://literaryreview.co.uk/number-two-capitalist-roader?
On Deng's reforms: https://theconversation.com/to-get-rich-is-glorious-how-deng-xiaoping-set-china-on-a-path-to-rule-the-world-156836?
More on reforms: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/40-years-of-reform-that-transformed-china-into-a-superpower/10573468?
China's reforms in charts: https://qz.com/1498654/the-astonishing-impact-of-chinas-1978-reforms-in-charts/?
Tiananmen Square Massacre: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-protest-tiananmen-square-turned-into-massacre?
BBC on the massacre: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48445934?
Radio Free Asia, the anti-rightist campaign: https://www.rfa.org/english/china/china_antirightist-20070619.html?
China then and now photos: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/may/10/china-pearl-river-delta-then-and-now-photographs
Even in today's China, people don't enjoy the right of private property. You only get land use rights.
@sonnymelayu9796sunliek Says:
You look great deng Xiaoping
@dhavaldesai6202 Says:
He is i think was one of the best leaders of last century which xi jin ping will destroy with his policies
@dallasvienneau Says:
Ronald Reagan Campaign Slogan: Make America Great Again.
Bill Clinton Campaign Slogan: Make America Great Again
Donald Trump Campaign Slogan: Make America Great Again
Deng Xiaoping: Hold my beer as i make China great again!
@6figureetal Says:
These Chinese leaders were committed to make China a great nation
@abeddani992 Says:
The difference between him and Mao couldn't be more conspicuous when you said that Mao died in a country near the brink of chaos and strife, while Deng died in his new high rise bldg in the cosmopolitan Chinese capital.. Wow it hit home
@joolsweller2001 Says:
If karma according to the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita is true ! Then most of these world leaders are f…ed! 😂
@kensim8378 Says:
HEY WHISTLER PLS TRIM YOUR BESRD TO LOOK NEATER!
@cashed-out2192 Says:
Now that Xi Jinping has declared himself, "unmovable," and "unstoppable," he is wide open to a challenger. China will have two Presidents in the near future because of this. Together they will agree on how to invade Taiwan. Xi doesn't have the answers, power or authority to do so.
@timon3370 Says:
Deng was a badass, don't let his cuteness fool you.
@markyanh6630 Says:
GREAT
@psalm3745 Says:
Deng was dead. Xi is reviving Mao's communist closed controlled economic China not Deng's open market economic China. China is doomed.
@bowserheadteacher Says:
Economic growth doesn't matter if it comes at the expense of human rights.
@oeleveoleve.7562 Says:
great statistic man.... henry kissinger another.... both were kind of brilliants that worked toghether .
@kapitanpufferfish5164 Says:
R e v i s i o n i s t
@user-uh8fu3mb9l Says:
Deng is a traitor and a strikebreaker. His only achievement is selling we Chinese workers at a good price.
@JiTiAr35 Says:
his picture should be in Tiananmen Square.
@id5307 Says:
没有邓公，油管就不会出现中文了😅
@derekgregory7098 Says:
Chinas population during the great leap forward was over 1 billion people, 45 million dying over a 20 year span is hardly a calamity lol the "horrors" of communism is mostly just bad math
@FlatEarthTruth611 Says:
He made China into a much better country then it would have been if the batshit crazy 'gang of four' had kept running the country.
He implemented some much needed market reforms that helped uplift the Chinese people without going full Neo-Liberal and retarded like what the west was doing with 'Reganomics' and 'Thatcherism' at the time.
@williana8790 Says:
At 19:28, is that Ted Cruz in the back??
@kiriseraph9674 Says:
Deng: Poverty is not socialism. To uphold socialism, a socialism that is to be superior to capitalism, it is imperative first and foremost to eliminate poverty. True, we are building socialism, but that doesn’t mean that what we have achieved so far is up to the socialist standard. Not until the middle of the next century, when we have reached the level of the moderately developed countries, shall we be able to say that we have really built socialism and to declare convincingly that it is superior to capitalism. We are advancing towards that goal.
@user-kx3cm6bk7k Says:
As a Chinese, I disagree with you in many many places. As a self-media, you only want your traffic. After casually reading some distorted articles and reports, then unashamedly expressed opinions that do not conform to reality. disgusting
@NguyenTran-mf9gj Says:
Image Deng Xiao Ping was the leader of China from the very beginning instead of Mao then China would be much stronger and had opened to the world much sooner and those catastrophy events like "The Great Leap Forward" and "The Culture revolution" would never happened.
@WINDYCHUNG Says:
When Deng took power in 1978, the GDP per capita of China ranked top 5 from the bottom, extremely poor. But today, we become the biggest competitor seen by the USA, this is incredible, we should always remember and implement the policies designed by Deng. Being quiet and always humble in the world.
@williamleo9704 Says:
You know you're destined for greatness when somebody like Mao has faith in you.
@mrmat3818 Says:
Zhao Ziyang should have been mantioned at least once.
@texassabre7214 Says:
His face looks like a Panda.
@soewin9784 Says:
Deng is wise made Red China changed to China., Great again. But Xi is making Great China to Hostile, Greedy Red China inviting World War-III leading to downfall of Red China.
@sleepless5008 Says:
Can someone tell me why Mao Zedong is considered greatest leader of china instead of Deng Xiaoping . China trasformed greatly in Xiaoping's leadership .
@v0lk_samoyed Says:
Mao’s portrait should be replaced with Deng’s in the forbidden city change my mind
@raymondhartmeijer9300 Says:
It's a bit cheap to always put emphasis on future Communist leaders as "coming from 'Middle class'", well yeah, because in most of those countries, workers and peasants couldn't even read. They did not get proper education in those former regimes, so it's no wonder the people who were able to actually study political and economic theory, were Middle- or Upper class.
Once in power, they made a point to end illitaracy and educate the people as major part of the revolution.
@brightfrost Says:
Why can't westerners tell the history of another non-western country without a condescending tone?
@TranNguyen-qw6ep Says:
Deng is a great leader for China but he caused harm to us Vietnamese.
Vietnam back then intended to form a federation consists of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia under our rules. We put a puppet gorvernment in Laos and was doing the same with Cambodia but we didn't expact Pol Pot turned out to be a psychopath. So, we removed him and put a more Vietnam-friendly gorvernment in Cambodia instead so we can finally unite all 3 country.
But then China attacked us and the US sanctioned us just because we wanted to expand our territory and be more united. Vietnam could have been a dominant power in the region if China and US didn't screw things up. What a shame 😔😔.
@philp7353 Says:
To be totally honest I think that Deng may have been right about democracy. Democracy seems be incredibly hard to do right and possibly doomed no matter how hard you try. America has made it about 250 years but that's not a long time by historical standards and we're really struggling to make it work and it still doesn't work super well though still better than most other systems. China's authoritarianism does seem to work decently for them, we'll see which way works better in time.
@user-nb8xo4be9i Says:
Why do foreigners (for Chinese people) think Deng Xiaoping is great?You should learn more about China's history from the 1950s to the 1990s. Deng Xiaoping is the right-wing, and the workers are expected to hate him and let China move from socialism to capitalism
@christiansimon3749 Says:
Thanks to America 🇺🇸 for sending our jobs to China in the 80s !
@user-wd9uf1yx5x Says:
I’m a Chinese. I love Deng XiaoPing.
@Puzzoozoo Says:
“You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.” Maximilien Robespierre
@briandoss9232 Says:
Can't decide whose history is bloodier. Russia or China...
@sam-fb1ds Says:
this man was willing to sacrifice everything, could the same be said about Trump?
@aasemahsan Says:
1:41 Early life
@gold_real_money Says:
"Being rich is glorious."
~ Deng Xiaoping ~
@codyshi4743 Says:
You should also do a video on China's first premier Zhou Enlai.
@halbertconk3756 Says:
I hate that Simon's Deng Bio is better than all the others, but tryin' to watch them is like swimming in viscous molasses. Those hour long tv style docs are so informationally sparse and SLOW!
@IWatchestheWatchmen Says:
Deng > Mao
@axelwebb5349 Says:
Thanks for mentioning the Tiamenen Square massacre.
@kddreadlord5532 Says:
I just found out I'm the modern day descendent of this guy...
(thats why my grandma looks like him)
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