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Deng was more than the mere architect of palace coups. He was also the father of what is known as “The Chinese Model” which consists of combining an authoritarian political regime, symbolised by one-party rule, with a laissez-faire capitalist economic system of the type that Guizot had preached in France in the 1830s.

I can search the web for, Deng Guizot, and I get 116 results with Crusty; about 302 with google

I can search the web for, Deng Lenin New Economic Plan, and I get at least 4,318 results with Crusty; about about 37,000 with google

I can search for, Deng Guizot "The Chinese Model", and I get 1 result with Crusty; about 8 with google

I can search for, Deng Lenin New Economic Plan "The Chinese Model", and I get 13 results with Crusty; about 201 with google

The point: Though of course not all hits were about "The Chinese Model" source the results suggest to me that my belief that Lenin's New Economic Plan (NEP) was the model used by Deng. (Also, why did Deng grill Armand Hammer about his experience with NEP?) To wit, attract Western corporate "useful idiots" to hand over their technology and build modern factories, take 'em for everything you can then send them home with nothing.

The difference is in the 1920's Soviet Union the nepmen were ordinary Russians. When free enterprise got too large the ideologues got scared and ended it and the Russian nepmen. The Chi-coms are smart, they are the nepmen (owners) of most of the wealth. Plus they appear to be stripping the "useful idiots" little by little.

Oddly, I did all four searches two times each. Every time google returned substantially more hits the second time than it did the first time -- a huge difference.