China on the way to neo-authoritarianism, or the revenge of Zhao Ziyang. In January 1992, Deng Xiaoping emerged from his semi-retirement to launch an offensive aimed at revitalizing the political and economic reforms which have been introduced in the eighties. The suggested programme does not indeed appear very different from that initiated by Zhao Ziyang before the massacre of 4th June 1989. Transition to a market economy and political neo-authoritarianism are the two aspects of Deng's strategy some months before the XlVth Congress of the Communist Party which will establish the main lines of development for the country during the rest of the present decade and possibly for the onset of the post-Deng period. Against a background of strugg...