Are you freaking out of your mind? damn i been witnessing big change in your opinions, correct me if i was wrong, extreme bias and hate against the west and will tolerate any sh!t from non western people even they are on a mission to degrade China, sorry if i have offended you, as you know i never like to argue with my brothers but i think you have cross the line.
Stop degrading our great leader "Deng xiaoping", he had done way more good than bad for China and he deserved great respect period.
PS, yeah right, mao was better than Deng? you must be kidding me.
No, I've always been extremely anti-West. Look, Chinese don't have to have uniform opinion. There are sellout trash traitors like Liu Xiaobo, there are hardcore Maoist like Bo Xilai, anyone has their own opinion and they're not more right or wrong for it except when it is self racist and threatens national security.
I'll just talk rationally about Deng vs. Mao.
In 1949, China had nothing and had to ironically import gunpowder. In 1959 we could already produce tanks, aircraft, and gunpowder. In 1969, we already had H-bombs, nuclear submarines and satellites.
Deng came to power in 1979 (economic reform was began not by him but by Hua Guofeng in 1976). In 1979, Shanghai and Taiwan with equal population had equal GDP per capita: 1000 USD. In 1989 Shanghai had 1100 USD and Taiwan had 6000. Why?
China's economic growth took off in 1992. The first 10 years of "growth" was due to more assets being accounted for, not actual growth. Add that to huge devaluation from 3:1 RMB:USD to 8:1 RMB:USD it essentially made our economy not grow at all. However, even on an RMB growth chart, our economic growth was sh!t during 80's.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Prc1952-2005gdp.gif
As you can see from this chart, growth took off only in 1992. In addition, why did Deng kill the Y-10 project and decide to buy from McDonnel Douglas, killing our civil aviation industry? Why did Deng use the phrase "造不如买,买不如租"?Most of all, people are smart. Why did no one riot against Mao but people riot against Deng, and never riot again after? Yes, there was CIA involvement, but CIA has to take advantage of existing problems. Now the CIA has a much harder time inciting riots in China.
Mao has never lost a war whether in Korea or India or Vietnam. There is no dispute about his victories. We killed/made missing after 20 years (basically killed) 1 million white and Korean trash in the Korean war and lost only 180,000 (our records) to 400,000 (US records). Even in worst case scenario we had a 2:1 kill ratio, in a war where we were 50 years behind the times and starting from disadvantaged geography.
However, in 1979, some people say China lost. Why? Because we didn't massacre the Vietnamese the way we massacred the Koreans, because we retreated instead of held the line like we did in Korea. Even this victory in Vietnam was a "worse" victory than the one in Korea. Not all victories are equal.
Deng did little for China but was a great showman for the West.