They are fluent Russian speakers. They have a perspective on Russia that the previous generation, Mao and even Deng Xiaoping, did not have. Mao and Deng were much more suspicious of Russia. This generation is suspicious of the West.
Quotes about deng (8 Quotes)
Change is coming, ... China is already having secret ballot and competitive elections at the local level. Nearly 20 years ago, Deng Xiaoping said that China would eventually expand democratic elections all the way to the national level -- and I look forward to that day.
Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.
Deng Gai did a great job, clogging up the middle, being a defensive stopper, and blocking shots when we needed.
The Chinese people love Comrade Deng Xiaoping, thank Comrade Deng Xiaoping, mourn for Comrade Deng Xiaoping, and cherish the memory of Comrade Deng Xiaoping because he devoted his life-long energies to the Chinese people, performed immortal feats for the independence and liberation of the Chinese nation,
The decision to take economic construction as the center represents the most fundamental achievement made under Comrade Deng Xiaoping's leadership, in the effort to bring order out of chaos,
Deng engineered the most dramatic economic transformation of the 20th century, maybe ever. He changed China from a moribund, communist economy to an expansive, bull, rapidly growing mixed economy, with Marxism and market elements both present there. And it's a dramatic change.
What you have been seeing over the last year is the policy of Jiang Zemin, not Deng Xiaoping.