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TIL When Time magazine named China's Deng Xiaoping as 1985 Man of the Year, it prompted Taiwanese leader Chiang Ching-Kuo to quicken the pace of Taiwan's democratization. Deng invited Chiang to meet with him but he declined, on the grounds that he did not believe in the Communist Party of China

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