thank you. mao s successor, deng xiaoping had a toottlely opposite approach. millions have died bar lack of food. his main goal was to make his poverty stricken country rich. so he opened their borders to trade and sought peaceful coexistence with the west. deng xiaoping came up with a theory that he called hide your strength and bide your time. just st steadily invest in the chinese economy and just ease your way into the international system. the first peacekeeping engineering unit. china funned the u.n. and provided humanitarian aid, a remarkable turnaround from the days of mao. the chinese communist party is about to announce a new leader. but when xi jinping took power in 2012