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"Whether a cat is black or white makes no difference. As long as it catches mice, it is a good cat." - that famous quote from Deng Xiaoping  was made in the early 1960s. However he really showed to his people, and to the world what he meant after he rose to power in 1978, ridiculing the Mao led Cultural Revolution's slogans like  "it is better to be poor under socialism than rich under capitalism" , "a socialist train coming with a delay is better than the capitalist one that comes on time"  Of course, the other thing that Deng was (in)famous for was his alleged o rdering of the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.  Deng seems to have put China on a path that continues even today - and much more aggressively. Movements like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_and_uprisings_in_Tibet_since_1950 seems to have least bothered the Chinese.. and now they are after many more...

Taken using mobile (and looks better in it) at the Lumbini Gardens. Was that Oscar Wilde who wrote:  I stood and watched the crimson sunset glow From the lone chapel on thy marshy plain The sky was as a shield that caught the stain Of blood and battle from the dying sun, And in the west the circling clouds had spun A royal robe, which some great God might wear