hese communities had supported the student democracy movement, providing funds and safe havens for fleeing dissidents. But senior Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping was not dissuaded. In 1989 and again in 1993, he spoke of the “unique opportunity” overseas Chinese offered the PRC. Deng insisted that by drawing on

twork and the question put to me, in January of that year, was, “isn’t Xi Jinping going to be a very weak leader because he was not appointed by Deng Xiaoping and he has no strong base of support?” TESL A SOLAR POWER ARRIVES IN PUERTO AI HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023679 --- PAGE BREAK --- CW CNN International

e background to understand where China is today. This is the 40% year, the anniversary, of China’s reform and opening up. On December 18*, 1978, Deng Xiaoping made his famous speech, which transformed China from ideologically driven class struggle into economic development. It’s a big deal in China; there’s