changed china's course. Deng killed the 1989 democracy movement. He opened up china and set china's course towards wealth and trade instead of communism. See the student movement was not in vain they died for a change. And a change was made for china. It is never the choices of the leaders, it is the choice of the people. Only those who understand the people's heart can rule right? That is a chinese saying de min xin de tian xia.