Comrade Deng Xiaoping -- along with other party elders -- gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures. |
Comrade Xiaoping said, 'What I am worried is that you are not bold enough to carry out your work. You have to learn hard and train yourself in work in order to make yourself more mature,' |
firmly opposed to [the West] interfering in other countries' internal affairs by using the human rights issue. |
gradually upgrade weapons and other equipment and improve the defense capabilities and combat effectiveness of the army under modern technical and especially high-tech conditions. |
History is made by the people, ... In assessing whether [a politician] has really achieved something big, the last word belongs to posterity. |
If it (the new party) is designed to go for the multi-party system and try to negate the leadership of the Communist Party, then it will not be allowed to exist, |
If this trend had continued for three more years, something similar to the fall of the Berlin Wall would have happened to China and the Communist party would have crumbled. |
In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China, |
King Sihanouk is loved and esteemed by the Cambodian people and enjoys high prestige abroad, so respecting the role and influence of King Sihanouk will serve the interests of the Cambodian people, |
making a retreat so as to advance better. |
Such a system may be suitable to the West. However, China has its own conditions. We are a developing country with a large population, |
The Chinese side has always advocated that... the Kingdom of Cambodia's constitution and its political framework should be protected and that national elections be held as scheduled, |
The tide of liberalization had risen to dangerous levels by 1989, |
The year 1998 is an important year to comprehensively carry out the spirit of the 15th National Party Congress, and implement the policies and guidelines set forth by the Party Central Committee, |
We should also support laid-off workers in seeking new jobs on their own, and encourage them to become self-employed or to work in private sectors of the economy, |