Q. Why does China's leader Deng Xiaoping seem to dislike you so much?
A. Maybe it's an honor that he chose me. My family name is very simple: it has just four strokes, and it comes high up on all Chinese name lists ((laughs)). I think, too, he remembers me from the end of 1986 and the student movement at Hefei Institute of Science and Technology. At that time I was vice president ((of the institute)), so he thought I should take the chop for those demonstrations. The second time, he probably said, "Here he comes again, so we should hit...
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