Will china follow in the soviet footsteps?

Deng Xiaping's ‘New Deal’ programme was a precursor to Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika. This not only forms a basis of an interesting comparative study between Chinese Communism and its Soviet counterpart, but more importantly, why China was able to, unlike the Soviet Union, contain the drive towards democracy and maintain the dominance of the Communist Party. The future implications of the ideas left by Deng to a new generation of Chinese, who are coming to terms with the realities of the present times, also form interesting facets for study.