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SCMP Reporter

THE third daughter of Chinese patriarch Deng Xiaoping, Deng Rong, has been criticised by conservative cadres for being 'pro-American' and 'pro-Japan'.

  Sources in Beijing said yesterday that after Mr Deng's death, Ms Deng, who is his private secretary, might be required to give an account of her links to capitalist countries, in particular the United States and Japan.

  Ms Deng, 45, might also be asked to explain her relationship with an unnamed philanthropic foundation in Tokyo, which has financed Sino-Japanese exchanges including visits to Japan by senior Chinese politicians.

  It is believed that Ms Deng has some control over the China-related funds provided by the foundation.

  The sources have identified Ms Deng's conservative denigrators as allies of President Jiang Zemin.

  'There is no love lost between the two. Jiang is convinced Deng Rong had tried to persuade her father to rein him in, for example, by removing the President's direct control over the Army,' an informed source said.

  Political analysts in Beijing also said Mr Jiang was nervous about Ms Deng forming a coalition with former president and military strongman Yang Shangkun.

  Western diplomats in Beijing said that since Mr Deng's health had deteriorated markedly last December, activities by the five Deng offspring had been under surveillance by state security.

  It is understood that the Jiang Zemin Office had authority over how the surveillance would be carried out.

  Ms Deng has not made any public appearance since the National People's Congress in March, which she attended as a PLA deputy.

  Ms Deng and her husband He Ping worked in the Chinese Embassy in Washington in the late 1970s.

  Friends of the high-powered couple said they would be susceptible to accusations of improper conduct with foreigners simply on account of the large numbers, particularly Americans, they met regularly.

  Mr He, head of the Equipment Department of the PLA, is also a senior executive with multinational PLA corporations.

  Western diplomats said, however, that whether Ms Deng would be penalised, depended on the post-Deng political situation.

  A diplomat said it was untrue all the offspring were heading towards oblivion or disgrace. Vice-Minister of Science and Technology, Deng Nan, the second daughter, has been given more responsibility for implementing the 10-year plan for scientific and technological development.



Cadres criticise Deng Rong's US ties