THE FIFTH MODERNIZATION

THE DEMOCRACY WALL

• What is next for Chinese modernization?
• Could they adopt only economic measures without opening the political system
• The word of prophets was in a written in a wall

AFTER THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION

• Chinese people were weary and tired of socialist ideology--it's extreme methods
• Deng's promises to modernize China presented a new hope
• Chinese rapid modernization was equated to a future political reform

DENG'S FOREIGN INTERESTS

• Establishing good economical relations with Asian neighbors: Singapore/ Japan
• Turned away from Vietnam/ PDRK
• Met Jimmy Carter, Margaret Thatcher.
• Coca Cola set its first factory in Shangai
• Did China succumb to capitalism?

SYSTEMIC CHALLENGES

• By 1984,
• The question was not how to feed Chinese people. But how to keep control over a rapid modernization and its unforeseeable effects
• Democracy was, then, seemed as a major threat for political and CCP stability.