Deng Xiaoping: System

Deng Xiaoping was Chinese politician, Paramount leader of China. Explore interesting quotes on system.

Deng Xiaoping: 26 quotes10 likes

“We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries (…) The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems (…) Socialism and market economy are not incompatible (…) We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, but most of all, we must be concerned about left-wing deviations.”

Deng Xiaoping

Cited by António Caeiro in Pela China Dentro (translated), Dom Quixote, Lisboa, 2004. ISBN 972-20-2696-8

“One Country, Two systems.”

Deng Xiaoping

Actually coined by Mao Zedong, popularized by Deng Xiaoping
Misattributed or apocryphal

“The United States brags about its political system, but the [American] President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.”

Deng Xiaoping

When asked about China's political stability by a group of American professors in 1983, as quoted in The Pacific Rim and the Western World: Strategic, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives (1987), p. 105