As for China, we don't have the power to transform China.
The more conservative party members were less convinced of the need to transform China into a market-oriented system with all that would entail.
He died resisting an invitation from Beijing to attempt economic reforms that had transformed China, his authoritarian ally.
He makes an engaging, expert guide to the changes that have transformed China in the last quarter-century.
Microblogging even has the potential to transform China - and its leaders know it.
Huang's writings were an important element in transforming traditional China into its modern form.
The only cure is genuine political reform aimed at transforming China into a democracy - and no false claims of change will do.
He was instrumental in introducing and implementing economic reforms that transformed China into a market economy.
He had been prime minister, general secretary of the Communist Party and a principal architect of the economic changes that transformed China in the 1980's.
To be sure, economic policies alone won't transform China until political reforms are adopted.