https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpHajVhCK7o How Deng Xiaoping Rebuilt China After Mao (Contd) The Power Shift and The Red Century 6 Aug 2026 #dengxiaoping #china #History got on a plane and flew to the United 9:04 States, the great capitalist enemy, to 9:07 normalize relations and frankly to go 9:09 shopping for technology and investment. 9:12 And Deng, the master of political 9:14 theater, understood the assignment. At a 9:16 rodeo in Texas, someone handed him a 9:18 10gon cowboy hat and he put it on and 9:21 grinned for the cameras. That one photo 9:23 went around the world. The message was 9:26 unmistakable. China is open. China is 9:29 friendly. Come do business with us. It 9:31 was one of the most effective pieces of 9:32 soft power of the entire 20th century. 9:35 And it was a tiny man in an oversized 9:37 hat. Behind the showmanship was a hard 9:39 strategy. Deng invited foreign companies 9:42 in but usually made them partner with 9:44 Chinese firms. So the technology, the 9:46 knowhow, the management skills all got 9:48 transferred onto Chinese soil. The West 9:51 got cheap manufacturing. China got the 9:53 blueprint for a modern economy. Over 9:55 time, everyone found out who got the 9:57 better end of that deal. Now, here's 9:59 what separates Deng from every reckless 10:02 reformer who blew up their own country. 10:04 He never bet everything on one throw. He 10:07 had a saying for his whole approach. 10:08 Crossing the river by feeling for the 10:10 stones. You don't leap, you feel for the 10:13 next solid rock. Put your weight on it, 10:15 make sure it holds, and only then reach 10:17 for the one after that. Try something 10:19 small. If it works, expand it. If it 10:21 fails, quietly bury it and pretend it 10:24 never happened. Farms first, then 10:26 factories. One village, then a province, 10:29 four cities, then the coast. Compare 10:31 that to the Soviet Union a decade later, 10:34 which tried to reform everything at once 10:36 and shattered into pieces. Deng watched 10:38 that happen and took exactly the 10:41 opposite path. Slow, gradual, ruthlessly 10:45 practical, and it delivered a number so 10:47 large it barely feels real. Over the 10:50 following decades, China lifted around 10:52 800 million people out of extreme 10:54 poverty. That's more than the entire 10:56 population of Europe, dragged from dirt 10:59 poor to something like a working and 11:00 middle class in less than two 11:02 generations. No country at any point in 11:05 human history has ever pulled that many 11:07 people out of poverty that fast. Not 11:10 one. Dengs, China holds the record, and 11:12 it's not close. Rapid change ripped 11:15 things open as some people were allowed 11:17 to get rich first. Another deng phrase,
inequality exploded. The gap between the 11:22 booming coast and the forgotten interior 11:24 became a canyon. Corruption spread as 11:27 officials figured out how to cash in on 11:28 the new system. And by the late 1980s, 11:31 inflation was eating people's savings 11:33 alive. And then there's 1989. That 11:36 spring, students and workers filled 11:38 Tanaman Square in Beijing, demanding an 11:41 end to corruption and more political 11:43 freedom. They wanted the economic 11:45 opening to come with a political one. 11:47 Deng drew a hard line. His whole life 11:49 had taught him that chaos was the real 11:51 enemy. That a China that comes apart is 11:53 a China where tens of millions die. And 11:56 on the night of June 3rd into June 4th, 11:58 the government sent the army into the 12:00 heart of Beijing. Many people were 12:02 killed. The exact number is still 12:04 contested and still censored inside 12:06 China to this day. That's the other half 12:09 of Deng. The same pragmatism that freed 12:11 the economy also drew an absolute limit 12:14 around the party's power. He'd give the 12:16 Chinese people almost anything except a 12:19 say in who governed them. You cannot 12:22 tell this story honestly and leave that 12:24 out. The prosperity and the crackdown 12:26 came from the same man and the same 12:28 instinct. After TN men, the whole 12:31 project nearly died. The hardliners 12:33 inside the party smelled blood. They 12:35 wanted to slam the door shut, roll back 12:37 the reforms, and declare that opening up 12:39 had caused all this chaos. For about 12:42 three years, China's transformation 12:44 stalled and looked like it might reverse 12:46 entirely. Dung was in his late 80s now, 12:49 officially retired. No title left to 12:51 pull rank with. Most people would have 12:53 let it go. Instead, in early 1992, he 12:56 did one of the boldest things of his 12:58 entire life. He got on a train and took 13:00 what became known as the Southern Tour. 13:03 He traveled down to Shenzhen and the 13:05 other zones, the cities his reforms had 13:08 built from nothing. And standing in 13:10 front of those impossible skylines, he 13:13 made his argument to the whole country 13:15 over the heads of the officials trying 13:17 to stop him. His message was blunt. 13:19 Whoever won't reform should get out of 13:21 the way. Development is the only hard 13:24 truth. Look around you. Look at what 13:26 this built. And try to tell me it was 13:28 wrong. It worked. The tour reignited the 13:30 reforms. Foreign investment came 13:32 flooding back. The 1990s boom that 13:35 turned China into the factory of the
13:37 world. That's downstream of an 87 year 13:40 old man on a train refusing to let his 13:43 life's work die. Deng Xiaoping died in 13:46 1997. He never lived to see China join 13:49 the World Trade Organization or host the 13:51 Olympics or become the second largest 13:53 economy on Earth. But every one of those 13:55 was built on the foundation he laid. So 13:58 how did Dung Xiaoping rebuild China 14:00 after Mao? He didn't do it with a 14:02 grandmaster plan or a beautiful theory. 14:04 He did it by being relentlessly, almost 14:06 coldly practical. He let hungry farmers 14:09 keep their own harvest. He built little 14:11 test tube cities where the future could 14:12 be tried out safely. He opened the door 14:14 to the world and let the technology pour 14:17 in. And every time it worked, he 14:20 expanded it one stone at a time across 14:23 the river. He was purged three times and 14:25 came back three times. And each time he 14:27 came back more convinced of one simple 14:30 dangerous idea that results matter more 14:33 than slogans. He wasn't a saint. Tiana 14:36 make sure of that. The China he built is 14:39 richer and freer in some ways than 14:41 anyone in 1976 could have dreamed and 14:45 just as tightly controlled in others. 14:47 But the raw arithmetic stands and it may 14:50 never be matched. One broken country, 14:53 one stubborn little survivor. 800 14:55 million people pulled out of poverty. 14:58 Those 18 farmers in Shiaong pressed 15:00 their fingerprints in red ink because 15:02 they thought owning their own harvest 15:04 might get them killed. Within a 15:06 generation, their grandchildren were 15:08 carrying smartphones built in cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WJ2wPl1L78 100,000 Police Hunt One Man: Why Are Millions Sympathizing With A Fugitive 9 August 2026 #chinaobserver In August, China’s central plains are gripped by scorching heat. Under the blazing sun, endless cornfields sway in the hot wind. Somewhere inside one of those fields, a murder suspect was hiding — a case that reportedly drew intense attention from authorities.? comment @cheesewire007 20 minutes ago Outragious and pathetic. Exactly how many so-called 'Police' and 'Security Services' were mobilised during the recent floods to help save the lives of the Chinese people - zero, nada absolutely nobody!. So good luck to this unfortunate individual in making his escape and let's hope that the people of China take all necessary action to bring about the destruction of the CCP, it's para military thugs and supporters and hold to account everyone CCP official guilty of decades of abuse.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpHajVhCK7o
How Deng Xiaoping Rebuilt China After Mao (Contd)
The Power Shift and The Red Century 6 Aug 2026 #dengxiaoping #china #History got on a plane and flew to the United
9:04
States, the great capitalist enemy, to
9:07
normalize relations and frankly to go
9:09
shopping for technology and investment.
9:12
And Deng, the master of political
9:14
theater, understood the assignment. At a
9:16
rodeo in Texas, someone handed him a
9:18
10gon cowboy hat and he put it on and
9:21
grinned for the cameras. That one photo
9:23
went around the world. The message was
9:26
unmistakable. China is open. China is
9:29
friendly. Come do business with us. It
9:31
was one of the most effective pieces of
9:32
soft power of the entire 20th century.
9:35
And it was a tiny man in an oversized
9:37
hat. Behind the showmanship was a hard
9:39
strategy. Deng invited foreign companies
9:42
in but usually made them partner with
9:44
Chinese firms. So the technology, the
9:46
knowhow, the management skills all got
9:48
transferred onto Chinese soil. The West
9:51
got cheap manufacturing. China got the
9:53
blueprint for a modern economy. Over
9:55
time, everyone found out who got the
9:57
better end of that deal. Now, here's
9:59
what separates Deng from every reckless
10:02
reformer who blew up their own country.
10:04
He never bet everything on one throw. He
10:07
had a saying for his whole approach.
10:08
Crossing the river by feeling for the
10:10
stones. You don't leap, you feel for the
10:13
next solid rock. Put your weight on it,
10:15
make sure it holds, and only then reach
10:17
for the one after that. Try something
10:19
small. If it works, expand it. If it
10:21
fails, quietly bury it and pretend it
10:24
never happened. Farms first, then
10:26
factories. One village, then a province,
10:29
four cities, then the coast. Compare
10:31
that to the Soviet Union a decade later,
10:34
which tried to reform everything at once
10:36
and shattered into pieces. Deng watched
10:38
that happen and took exactly the
10:41
opposite path. Slow, gradual, ruthlessly
10:45
practical, and it delivered a number so
10:47
large it barely feels real. Over the
10:50
following decades, China lifted around
10:52
800 million people out of extreme
10:54
poverty. That's more than the entire
10:56
population of Europe, dragged from dirt
10:59
poor to something like a working and
11:00
middle class in less than two
11:02
generations. No country at any point in
11:05
human history has ever pulled that many
11:07
people out of poverty that fast. Not
11:10
one. Dengs, China holds the record, and
11:12
it's not close. Rapid change ripped
11:15
things open as some people were allowed
11:17
to get rich first. Another deng phrase,
inequality exploded. The gap between the
11:22
booming coast and the forgotten interior
11:24
became a canyon. Corruption spread as
11:27
officials figured out how to cash in on
11:28
the new system. And by the late 1980s,
11:31
inflation was eating people's savings
11:33
alive. And then there's 1989. That
11:36
spring, students and workers filled
11:38
Tanaman Square in Beijing, demanding an
11:41
end to corruption and more political
11:43
freedom. They wanted the economic
11:45
opening to come with a political one.
11:47
Deng drew a hard line. His whole life
11:49
had taught him that chaos was the real
11:51
enemy. That a China that comes apart is
11:53
a China where tens of millions die. And
11:56
on the night of June 3rd into June 4th,
11:58
the government sent the army into the
12:00
heart of Beijing. Many people were
12:02
killed. The exact number is still
12:04
contested and still censored inside
12:06
China to this day. That's the other half
12:09
of Deng. The same pragmatism that freed
12:11
the economy also drew an absolute limit
12:14
around the party's power. He'd give the
12:16
Chinese people almost anything except a
12:19
say in who governed them. You cannot
12:22
tell this story honestly and leave that
12:24
out. The prosperity and the crackdown
12:26
came from the same man and the same
12:28
instinct. After TN men, the whole
12:31
project nearly died. The hardliners
12:33
inside the party smelled blood. They
12:35
wanted to slam the door shut, roll back
12:37
the reforms, and declare that opening up
12:39
had caused all this chaos. For about
12:42
three years, China's transformation
12:44
stalled and looked like it might reverse
12:46
entirely. Dung was in his late 80s now,
12:49
officially retired. No title left to
12:51
pull rank with. Most people would have
12:53
let it go. Instead, in early 1992, he
12:56
did one of the boldest things of his
12:58
entire life. He got on a train and took
13:00
what became known as the Southern Tour.
13:03
He traveled down to Shenzhen and the
13:05
other zones, the cities his reforms had
13:08
built from nothing. And standing in
13:10
front of those impossible skylines, he
13:13
made his argument to the whole country
13:15
over the heads of the officials trying
13:17
to stop him. His message was blunt.
13:19
Whoever won't reform should get out of
13:21
the way. Development is the only hard
13:24
truth. Look around you. Look at what
13:26
this built. And try to tell me it was
13:28
wrong. It worked. The tour reignited the
13:30
reforms. Foreign investment came
13:32
flooding back. The 1990s boom that
13:35
turned China into the factory of the
13:37
world. That's downstream of an 87 year
13:40
old man on a train refusing to let his
13:43
life's work die. Deng Xiaoping died in
13:46
1997. He never lived to see China join
13:49
the World Trade Organization or host the
13:51
Olympics or become the second largest
13:53
economy on Earth. But every one of those
13:55
was built on the foundation he laid. So
13:58
how did Dung Xiaoping rebuild China
14:00
after Mao? He didn't do it with a
14:02
grandmaster plan or a beautiful theory.
14:04
He did it by being relentlessly, almost
14:06
coldly practical. He let hungry farmers
14:09
keep their own harvest. He built little
14:11
test tube cities where the future could
14:12
be tried out safely. He opened the door
14:14
to the world and let the technology pour
14:17
in. And every time it worked, he
14:20
expanded it one stone at a time across
14:23
the river. He was purged three times and
14:25
came back three times. And each time he
14:27
came back more convinced of one simple
14:30
dangerous idea that results matter more
14:33
than slogans. He wasn't a saint. Tiana
14:36
make sure of that. The China he built is
14:39
richer and freer in some ways than
14:41
anyone in 1976 could have dreamed and
14:45
just as tightly controlled in others.
14:47
But the raw arithmetic stands and it may
14:50
never be matched. One broken country,
14:53
one stubborn little survivor. 800
14:55
million people pulled out of poverty.
14:58
Those 18 farmers in Shiaong pressed
15:00
their fingerprints in red ink because
15:02
they thought owning their own harvest
15:04
might get them killed. Within a
15:06
generation, their grandchildren were
15:08
carrying smartphones built in cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WJ2wPl1L78 100,000 Police Hunt One Man: Why Are Millions Sympathizing With A Fugitive 9 August 2026 #chinaobserver
In August, China’s central plains are gripped by scorching heat. Under the blazing sun, endless cornfields sway in the hot wind. Somewhere inside one of those fields, a murder suspect was hiding — a case that reportedly drew intense attention from authorities.? comment
@cheesewire007 20 minutes ago Outragious and pathetic. Exactly how many so-called 'Police' and 'Security Services' were mobilised during the recent floods to help save the lives of the Chinese people - zero, nada absolutely nobody!. So good luck to this unfortunate individual in making his escape and let's hope that the people of China take all necessary action to bring about the destruction of the CCP, it's para military thugs and supporters and hold to account everyone CCP official guilty of decades of abuse.
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