"Socialism with Chinese characteristics"--Deng's famous phrase--may mean many things, but it is, above all, socialism.

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Slogans such as "the scientific mode of development, " "socialism with Chinese characteristics, " and "harmonious society" often cannot be explained by the average Chinese citizen.

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Deng's stress on building "socialism with Chinese characteristics, " which permits private businesses to co-exist with the public sector, is to be the vanguard for China's economic development.

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Or maybe China Bears will learn that most Western observers of China consistently underestimate the resilience and longevity of the government and this very hard-to-model, very messy creation officially known in China as Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.

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