[tallhappy]

Deng was too. Fascist through and through.

[weikel]

A strongman perhaps but a believer in the free market and was generally very pro American and Anti Soviet( if you look at the way he dealt with commie hardliners within China and his foreign policy you could almost say he was anti communist). He was probably the best ruler China has had since the Tang dynasty. You have to give him credit Mao totally destroyed an already impoverished country after Deng it was pretty close to 1st world status and a great power. Not only that its population from what I hear( from people who have traveled there) is the most capitalistic in their thinking of any in the world( travellers get mobbed immediately by people trying to sell them things).