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Deng and successors reform era

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After 1978, Mao's successor Deng Xiaoping constructed a market-economy system, while still remain de facto control over the land by imposing the length of usage of the land, and by 2000 output had increased, population growth ended (by imposing a one-child policy), and mediocre relations were secured with the West. For much of the population, living standards have improved and the material choices are growing, yet totalitarian rule and the ownership of the Internet still firmly gripped.

In 1989, the Tiananmen Square democracy protests were inspired by an explosion of democracy protests worldwide, resulting in the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Czech Velvet Revolution, and the collapse of Soviet Communism. The Chinese protests however were quashed when the so-called "People's Liberation Army" killed over 10,000 Chinese people. The Chinese Communist Party then established a registry of social organizations, in order to head off political upheaval. Falun Gong, a revival of pre-Maoist Cultural Revolution traditions, registered with the Chinese government in 1992. It soon attracted “tens of millions of adherents,” the political-science professor Maria Hsia Chang writes in Falun Gong: The End of Days.' Falun Gong started holding enormous gatherings; by the mid- 1990s, there were more than two thousand Falun Gong practice sites in Beijing alone. Troubled by the possibility that a large part of the population was becoming more loyal to Falun Gong than to the Communist Party, the government began cracking down on groups and banning sales of Falun Gong publications.

By 1999, the CCP estimated that the group had seventy million adherents; that year, more than ten thousand of them staged a silent protest in Tiananmen Square. An arrest warrant was issued for Li Hongzhi, the group founder, who had by then immigrated to Queens, New York. The Chinese National Congress subsequently passed, and began violently enforcing, an "anti-cult law".[1]

China's economy changed from a centrally planned system that was largely closed to international trade, to a more market-oriented economy that has a rapidly growing private sector and is a major player in the global economy.

Tiananmen Square massacre

Remains of what used to be human beings in the Tiananmen Square democracy protests.[2]
See also: Tiananmen Square massacre

Near the end of the Cold War China's Communist Party faced the challenge of large-scale protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square and in more than 100 other cities including Shanghai between April 15, 1989, and June 4, 1989. Disagreements about how to respond split the top Party leadership and forced out the Party General Secretary at the time, Zhao Ziyang. The decision by Deng Xiaoping, then China's Paramount Leader, to order the People's army to break up pro-democracy protests by force undermined the Party's legitimacy.

In the months prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, pro-democracy movements worldwide flourished and socialism fell into disrepute. In an object lesson about the duplicity of socialist slogans, buzzwords, and phrases geared toward the youth and the naive - China's People's Army killed 10,000 of China's own people.[3] In fact, China's People's Army has killed more of China's own people than it has ever been used against any foreign enemy in its entire history.

No sanctions were ever leveled by Western powers and globalists for these naked human rights violations. In fact, China was welcomed into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 and granted Most Favored Nation (MFN) trade status by the United States in 2002, having made no reforms to its socialist, authoritarian and totalitarian system.

Most Favored Nation status with the U.S.

See also: Most favored nation
As China has been growing in power, it has also become increasingly aggressive on the international stage.[4] The country's Communist Party also increased control over the country and economy,[5] and foreign companies worked to appease the Chinese government.[6] China uses about half of the world's steel and cement/concrete. In the 3 years from 2011 to 2014, China used 6.6 gigatons of cement, which is more than the US did in the entire 20th century.[7] China also worked to isolate Taiwan diplomatically.[8] China became the dominant trading partner of a large majority of the world's countries, overtaking the U.S.[9] Under Xi Jinping, China regressed back to Mao's totalitarianism.[10]
  1. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20101127131821/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/16/world/china-expels-53-foreign-falun-gong-followers.html
  2. ↑ http://www.cnd.org/HYPLAN/yawei/june4th/
  3. ↑ "Chinese Killed At Least 10,000 At Tiananmen Square, Newly Declassified Documents Claim", Daily Caller, 12/24/2017.
  4. ↑ Scaliger, Charles (February 19, 2019). China’s New Aggression on the World Stage. The New American. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
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  5. ↑ Multiple references: See also:
  6. ↑ Lowe, Tiana (August 15, 2019). Woke capitalism cowers to China. Washington Examiner. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
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  7. ↑ https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Concrete-in-China
  8. ↑ Schmitt, Gary (September 26, 2019). China is quietly winning the diplomatic war with Taiwan. The Hill. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
  9. ↑ Zeeshan Mhaskar. Twitter. November 24, 2019. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
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  10. ↑ Adelmann, Bob (December 30, 2019). China’s Xi Jinping Is Now the “People’s Leader”. The New American. Retrieved December 30, 2019.