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Teng Hsiao-ping

British  
/ ˈtɛŋ sjaʊ ˈpɪŋ /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Deng Xiaoping

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Early in June, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping told a group of visiting American editors that President Gerald Ford would be welcome in China whether or not he had anything substantial to discuss.

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Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, who represented Premier Chou En-lai at the formal banquet, responded with more restraint, commenting simply on the Philippines as "a beautiful and richly endowed country" whose people were "industrious and valiant."

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Chou had rehabilitated the diminutive but assertive and talented Teng Hsiao-ping from his abject Cultural Revolutionary disgrace and anointed him his successor as Premier.

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The regime's leadership set an example of Lei Feng-like solidarity last July after Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping failed in his effort in Moscow to end the Sino-Soviet split.

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Both Chiao and Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, who appears to be running China on a day-to-day basis, are facing increasing complaints from some of their colleagues about the Washington connection.

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