IT IS SURELY ONE OF THE 20th century's most extraordinary twists: in an era when capitalism became the most unifying force in the world, the most influential capitalist of them all turned out not to ...

Back in 1978, Deng Xiaoping, the grandfather of China’s market reform, delivered a speech at a Communist Party plenum that signaled the country would be set in an entirely new direction. The aging ...

Deng Xiaoping was born on August 22, 1904. One hundred years have passed. There was a time when I felt Deng had accomplished a great deal. I changed my mind on June 4, 1989, when I was living in ...

Maduro’s Sorbonne-educated successor is talking up an era of ‘reform and opening up’ modelled on China’s post-Mao boom After years of political and social upheaval, hunger and despair, the Great ...

After four days of high-level meetings, China's new leadership has announced what are being called the boldest reforms since Deng Xiaoping embraced market refor in the 1970's and early 80's. China's ...

(CNN) -- Deng Xiaoping was many things to many people. He was the great reformer, the party recalcitrant, the liberal visionary. But in 1989, he forever became the man who ordered the military to put ...