Purged twice from power, the man with the smiling face and iron fist rebounded to become paramount leader and initiate a heady reform era Deng Xiaoping and I were a highly unusual pair of adversaries- ...

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(CNN) -- Deng Xiaoping was many things to many people. He was the great reformer, the party recalcitrant, the liberal visionary. But in 1989, he forever became the man who ordered the military to put ...