Say that Deng's merits and errors have been an inevitable part of the transitional era in Chinese history if you will, or that they were incidental.
蓋棺不必論定，鄧小平的是非功過是中國轉型期中的必然也罷、偶然也罷，對今人和來人而言，最真實的是，鄧小平的時代確實結束了！