He helped keep China at bay and also was vital to a negotiated solution to the Cambodian war.
We're supposed to keep China from making a grab for the islands.
This stunted any development and modernisation and kept China in a backward state.
But it is keeping China and India under scrutiny, wary that the turmoil might spill over.
"Strict censorship keeps China from becoming a culturally developed country"
His colleague says this deferential culture will keep China behind the West in the race to create the next big thing.
Repression appears to be the only way in which to keep China functioning at the moment.
But keeping China out of the global economy will actually hurt American factory workers more than it helps them.
The administration hoped to try to keep China from backtracking in negotiations.
There he took up an old cause: keeping China out of that body.