Newt Gingrich: “Deng Xiaoping was one of the 24 people in Paris who create…”

“And well, a couple years ago I did a book called Trump and China and I went back and did a lot of research and I was frankly pretty embarrassed. Deng Xiaoping was one of the 24 people in Paris who create the Chinese Communist Party. He leaves Paris at the end of World War I, goes to Moscow and spends a year at Lenin University studying Marxism, Leninism. He is saying, and none of us caught this.” (14:46–14:53)

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