Commentary Recently, a series of articles have been published under the title “The 30th year of Deng Xiaoping’s South Tour” on DWNews, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda mouthpiece that targets overseas Chinese-language readers. Deng traveled to Shenzhen, a southern Chinese city, in January 1992 in an effort to win back his power in China amid heavy political infighting between his opponents. Although revealing some important historical information, the articles nonetheless followed the CCP’s official history framework and made significant alterations to and omissions of the historical background. They are, in fact, CCP newly fabricated brainwashing pieces. As an aide to then premier Zhao Ziyang, I personally witnessed and participated in some of the events before Deng’s tour. I would like to clarify the facts behind that tour, and show how Deng messed up China’s domestic economic reform and lost his influence among the top echelons of the CCP. 1980s Infighting …