by Phil Newell) Assessing Deng Xiaoping: An Interview with Xu Jiatun Among former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials now living in exile, Xu Jiatun--at one time Jiangsu Province First Secretary and later director of the Hong Kong branch of the Xinhua News Agency (and thus the PRC's de facto top man in Hong Kong) --probably had the most contact with, and deepest understand ing of, Deng Xiaoping.
（聯合報二月二十一日）許家屯談鄧小平﹘﹘改革挽人心，有功；鎮壓天安門，失策卜大中在海外的中共高幹當中，以前江蘇省委第一書記、前香港新華社社長許家屯與鄧小平接觸的經驗最多，對鄧的認識最深。