The business focus follows a tradition set by Deng Xiaoping on his first visit to the United States in 1979 , when he communed with American capitalists just as China began to shed its Maoist legacy and open up to the outside world .
Deng Xiaoping /people/person/nationality China
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Deng Xiaoping
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China
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