Deng was the first to warn that China must chart its own reform path and not blindly copy the Western model. He sneered at Mikhail Gorbachev's "perestroika" reforms in the Soviet Union ...

China too had a devastating earthquake and though Deng Xiaoping was no Mikhail Gorbachev, he did push some western ideas within the framework of a continued communist system. US companies found ...

President Vladimir Putin claimed to be too busy to attend. In show of ambivalence, Putin pays tribute to Gorbachev but won’t attend his funeral Russian President Vladimir Putin has paid tribute ...