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Today in Asian History
March 3
1971 China launched its first satellite.
1987 Paramount Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping told U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz that the current campaign against bourgeois liberalism was a matter of long term education. See Deng's 1979 warning against bourgeois liberalization.
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