Despite new social and economic disparities, Chinese leaders, hard-line and reform alike, agree on the Four Modernizations - major improvements in defense, industry, agriculture, and science and technology. In The Technological Transformation of China, author David McDonald describes some of the monumental tasks the Chinese face in these areas, especially in the current five-year plan for science and technology in which the Chinese government can claim some success.
When Hu Yaobang, a long-time voice of reform, died in April 1989, and massive student demonstrations for ''democratization'' took over Tiananmen Square and much of Beijing, one of the students said to a Western journalist, ''Every four years, you change your government by voting. Every decade we have a revolution.'' Revolution or transformation? Whatever happens in China - including renewed repression - is an important part of our future.
Bradley C. Hosmer
Lieutenant General, U. S. Air Force
President, National Defense University
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