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China may have improved since 1979, but it still has an unblemished history of authoritarianism, five millenniums without sustained democracy.)
Analysts consider Jiang a clumsy weakling compared with Deng, and are debating whether 1) he will continue Deng's reforms or return to authoritarianism and 2) he can consolidate power or will be outmaneuvered by rivals.
In the '70s, Kissinger downplayed ideological conflict with Soviet Communists in favor of soothed relations, just as Sino-apologists (including Kissinger) today ignore China's Communist authoritarianism, human rights violations, and suppression of democracy.
Régis Debray, Che's comrade, wrote a memoir last year in which he warned against exactly that delusion--"the anti-authoritarian revolt of '68 taking this hardcore partisan of authoritarianism for its emblem."
To me, his libertarianism and call-a-spade-a-spade plain-spokenness seem attractive--since moral authoritarianism (Gary Bauer, Pat Buchanan, et al.) and mealy-mouthed temporizing (practically every politician except the moral authoritarians Bob Kerrey and Bill Weld) are the things that scare and disgust me most in contemporary politics.