In the aftermath of Chairman Mao Zedong’s disastrous personality cult, Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping recognised the dangers of totalitarian dictatorship.
In the early 1980s Deng set about establishing a system that relied on competent governance, co-opting the elite and consensus rule at the top.
China was still an autocracy but it incorporated and empowered enough interest groups to provide basic political stability and stellar economic growth, with just one big exception in 1989.
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