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FOREIGN POLICY FOR OPEN DOOR WITH ALL THAT THIS ENTAILS IN LONG-TERM
FOR RAISING POLITICAL EXPECTATIONS OF FEOPLE.
5.THIS IS BACKGROUND AGAINST WHICH CONSERVATIVES HAVE HAD TO
CONDUCT THEIR POST-TIANANMEN CAMPAIGN TO SLOW RATE OF CHANGE AND
PROTECT ESSENCE OF SOCIALIST SYSTEM WHICH PRODUCED QUOTE NEW
CHINA UNQUOTE. MOST VISIBLE ASPECT OF THIS CAMPAIGN OF COURSE HAS
BEEN RESORT TO USE OF OLD-STYLE MAOIST PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES.
6.WESTERN (INCLUDING HKONG) MEDIA HAVE BEEN QUICK TO DRAW
CONCLUSION THAT CHINESE POLITICS WAS RETURNING TO CULTURAL
REVOLUTION WAYS AND THAT REFORM AND OPENING WERE IN DANGER OF
BEING SWEPT AWAY IN NEO-LEFTIST TIDE.PERCEPTIONS OF HKONG
OBSERVERS REFLECTED IN TITLE OF REFTEL QUOTE BORN AGAIN LEFTISTS
CONSOLIDATING POWER UNQUOTE IS GOOD EXAMPLE OF MISLEADING
CONCUSIONS THAT HAVE BEEN DRAWN FROM PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS,MOST IF
NOT/NOT ALL OF WHICH HAVE MISFIRED, HAVING NO/NO POPULAR SUPPORT
AND, EVEN WITHIN PARTY, NEVER HAVING GAINED SIGNIFICANT MOMENTUM.
7.THERE CAN BE NO/NO DOUBT OF COURSE THAT PARTY HAS REASSERTED
ITSELF IN LIFE OF ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS IN MANY AREAS OF
ACTIVITY.IN SOME, NOTABLY NON-SCIENTIFIC/TECHNOLOGICAL ACADEMIC
ACTIVITIES, THIS HAS HAD CLEARLY STULTIFYING AND REPRESSIVE
EFFECT. SOCIAL SCIENCES REMAIN IN DOLDRUMS.HUNDREDS OF POLITICAL
ACTIVISTS DURING TIANANMEN EVENTS REMAIN IN DETENTION AND ALL
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