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SUMMARY.
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ECONOMIC ENERGIES IN
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1. IT WAS DENG XIAOPING WHO DECIDED TO SACK HU YAORANG. BUT SOME **OLD REVOLUTIONARIES' AND (PERHAPS) ZHAO ZIYANG WERE INFLUENTIAL OVER THE DECISION. THE PURPOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST BOURGEOIS LIBERALISATION IS DRAW BOUNDARIES BEYOND WHICH DEBATE ABOUT POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC REFORM WILL NOT BE PERMITTED. REFORM WILL CONTINUE, BUT WITHOUT FRESH MEASURES. RELATION TO POLITICAL REFORM WILL BE DEVOTED TO PREPARING DOCUMENTS FOR IMPORTANT PARTY MEETINGS. DÊNG NOW SEEMS TO PRESIDE OVER A COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP WHICH IS NOT IDEOLOGICALLY HOMOGENEOUS. REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY WILL RE-ENTER CHINESE POLITICS. ZHAO ZIYANG WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY BE THE NEW SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. A NEW PREMIER IS
NOT YET IN SIGHT.
2.
RU'S DISMISSAL.
IT
A GOOD DEAL OF NEW EVIDENCE ABOUT THE REASONS FOR HU'S ENFORCED
RESIGNATION HAS BECOME AVAILABLE DURING THE PAST MONTH, THIS SHOWS THAT THE CATALOGUE OF ERRORS', WHETHER OF LINE OR OF STYLE, OF WHICH HU HAS BEEN ACCUSED IS A LONG ONE, INDEED, SO LONG THAT IT
SMACKS OF RATIONALISATION. TWO OF THE MOST MYSTERIOUS CHARGES
AGAINST HU ARE THAT HE ADVOCATED THE LIBERATION OF TAIWAN BY FORCE
AND THAT HE FAVOURED A RAPID RAPPROCHEMENT WITH THE SOVIET UNION.
THINK THAT THESE CHARGES MUST HAVE BEEN BUILT UP FROM THINGS SAID
LIGHTLY, OR EVEN IN JUST, IN INFORMAL CONVERSATION. THE SECOND OF
THEM IS CERTAINLY HARD TO RECONCILE WITH THE LINE ABOUT THE SOVIET
UNION WHICH HU TOOK WITH THE PRIME MINISTER IN LONDON LAST JUNE.
3. WHAT EVIDENCE DOES SHOW, I THINK, IS THAT SENIOR CONSERVATIVES
IN THE PARTY WERE MORE INFLUENTIAL OVER THE DECISION THAT HU IST GO
THEN WAS SUGGESTED IN PARAGRAPH 6 OF MY TUR. IT IS NOW PRETTY CLEAR
THAT THE OLD MEN (CHEN YUN, PENG ZHEN, BO YIBO, YANG SHANGKUN AND
WANG ZHEN) WERE WORKING AGAINST SOME OF WHAT HU STOOD FOR, IF NOT AGAINST HU HIMSELF, FOR YEARS RATHER THAN MONTHS BEFORE HIS
DISMISSAL AND THAT DENG FELT BOUND TO LISTEN TO THEM IN DECEMBER
BECAUSE OF THEIR CREDENTIALS AS OLD REVOLUTIONARIES''. IT IS ALSO
CLEAR THAT SOME OF THEM, PERHAPS ESPECIALLY WANG ZHEN, ARE NOW DOING
THEIR BEST TO GIVE THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST BOURGEOIS LIBERALISATION
QUITE A HARD EDGE.
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