Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.

Deng Xiaoping

Leader of China from 1978 to 1989

Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and political theorist who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1989. In the aftermath of Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng succeeded in consolidating power to lead China through a…