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| | Telegraph News Zhao Ziyang |
 | | Zhao Ziyang was born Zhao Xiusheng on October 17 1919, the son of a wealthy landowner in Henan province in central China. | | | Zhao Ziyang, who died yesterday aged 85, served as prime minister of China from 1980 then as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 1987; but he was sacked by China's elder statesman Deng Xiaoping and other leaders in 1989 after he opposed the military crackdown on protesting students in Tiananmen Square. | | | The success and popularity of his reforms brought Zhao to the attention of Deng Xiaoping, who had returned to the national leadership after the death of Mao Tse-tung in 1976. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/18/db1801.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/01/18/ixportal.html
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| | USATODAY.com - Ex-Chinese communist leader Zhao dies |
| | The son of a landlord, Zhao was born in 1919 in Henan Province. | | | Zhao, a former premier and the dapper, articulate protege of late supreme leader Deng Xiaoping, helped to launch China's economic boom, bringing new prosperity and opening his nation to the world. | | | Zhao was named party secretary and governor of Sichuan, China's most populous province, in 1975. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-01-16-zhao_x.htm
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| | RFA: Zhao Ziyang's Widow Won't Attend Funeral; Tiananmen Mother Under House Arrest |
| | Zhao Ziyang's daughter, Wang Yannan, receiving mourners at the family residence in Beijing. | | | Zhao Wujun, fifth son of Zhao Ziyang, Beijing | | | Meanwhile, Zhao's fifth son, Zhao Wujun, confirmed to RFA that the government was likely to set limits on those allowed to attend the funeral, scheduled for 9:00 a.m. |
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http://www.rfa.org/english/news/2005/01/27/china_zhao_dingzilin
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| | Remains of Zhao Ziyang cremated in Beijing |
| | Comrade Zhao Ziyang, who passed away on Jan. 17 at the age of 85, was cremated at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in western Beijing Saturday morning. | | | During the years of revolutionary wars and the period of socialist construction, Comrade Zhao successively served as the chief leader of the CPC committees at the county, prefectural and provincial levels. | | | Comrade Zhao's families, close-by workers, old friends, representatives from his hometown and the places he once worked in, and representatives from various Party and government departments, also went to the cemetery to bid farewell to his remains. |
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-01/29/content_413413.htm
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| | washingtonpost.com: Purged Chinese Leader Zhao Ziyang Dies at 85 |
| | Zhao also championed a program of political reform involving separation of power between the party and the government, an expansion of press freedoms and the role of representative assemblies, and strengthening the rule of law. | | | As premier from 1980 to 1987, and the party's general secretary from 1987 to 1989, Zhao was in line to succeed Deng when the Tiananmen protests erupted. | | | In an essay last year, Bao Tong, a senior aide of Zhao's who is under house arrest, said the Chinese leadership "made a decision to erase history, to erase the name of Zhao Ziyang, because when absolute power went insane, it was Zhao who rang the bell of reason and compassion." |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14368-2005Jan16?language=printer
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| | UCLA International Institute :: Remembering Zhao Ziyang |
| | Zhao’s persecution was the persecution of a leader who dedicated himself for over a decade to groundbreaking efforts that became the foundations of China’s economic reform. | | | Bao Tong, former Director of the Office of Political Reform of the CCP Central Committee, was Secretary to Zhao Ziyang, Premier of the State Council, from 1980 to 1985. | | | Zhao’s package — a sharp break with Mao’s totalitarianism — was approved by the 13th Party Congress, officially the highest authority within the CCP. |
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http://www.isop.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=20230
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| | Zhao Ziyang on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Purged Reformist Leader Zhao Ziyang Dies In Beijing | | | JOHN GIANNINI Agence France Presse 01-15-2005 (FILES) Picture dated 01 November 1987 of Zhao Ziyang, the chief architect of China's reforms, Prime Minister and Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) general secretary, during the 13th Communist Party Congress at the People's Great Hall in Beijing. | | | Consequently, he was ousted from all posts on June 23, was placed under house arrest until Oct., 1989, and subsequently had his movements and visitors restricted until his death. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/Z/ZhaoZ1iya.asp
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| | Guardian Unlimited Obituaries Zhao Ziyang |
| | By 1954, Zhao was a deputy secretary in the South China party bureau, with special responsibility for land reform. | | | Before long, Zhao had taken over from Hua as the premier of the state council. | | | After two more crucial votes in the party's highest body went against him, he withdrew from office, while his arch-rival Li Peng prepared to declare martial law. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1392541,00.html
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| | Beijing on heightened alert after the death of Zhao Ziyang |
| | Zhao argued that it was necessary to create a new social base of support for the regime by intensifying market restructuring and granting limited democratic reforms to woo the new middle class. | | | After his ousting, Zhao made no appeal to these social layers and quietly accepted his removal from office. | | | Concerned that the lead-up to the Chinese New Year could be a “highly sensitive period”, Beijing has urged university students and millions of rural immigrant workers to leave major cities and return home early for the holiday. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jan2005/zhao-j25.shtml
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| | Blog of Death: Zhao Ziyang |
| | Zhao became the governor of Sichuan in 1975. | | | His efforts, which were approved by the late supreme leader Deng Xiaoping, invigorated the economy, but also brought inflation and income gaps between the rich and the poor. | | | Accused of "splitting the party," he lost an internal power struggle and was stripped of his titles. |
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http://www.blogofdeath.com/archives/001286.html
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| | CNN.com - Beijing warns on Zhao reaction - Jan 17, 2005 |
| | Former party general secretary Zhao died on Monday at the age of 85. | | | The terse, one-paragraph text announcing Zhao's death by the official New China News Agency omitted his former titles and steered clear of any assessment of Zhao, also a former premier and party boss of Sichuan and Guangdong provinces. | | | Ousted Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang dies at 85. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/17/china.zhao.willylam
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| | Human Rights in China |
| | Zhao Ziyang was the most senior official to be purged in connection with the 1989 crackdown. | | | âZhao Ziyang is one of the giants of Chinaâs reform movement,â said HRIC president Liu Qing. | | | ⢠A special conference at Columbia University scheduled on Zhaoâs birthday to review Zhaoâs contributions to Chinaâs political reform; |
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http://iso.hrichina.org/public/contents/press?revision_id=17163&item_id=15978
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| | Glutter(.org): News: Who is Zhao Ziyang? |
| | Zhao had served as communist party secretary general and prime minister for much of the 1980s. | | | But Zhao was rehabilitated by Zhou Enlai in 1973 and sent to govern China's largest province, Sichuan. | | | He was born in 1919 in central Henan province to a family of well-known landowners. |
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http://glutter.typepad.com/glutter/2005/01/news_zhao_a_ref.html
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| | BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Obituary: Zhao Ziyang |
| | Zhao was rehabilitated by Zhou Enlai in 1973 and was sent to govern China's largest province, Sichuan. | | | After six months as vice premier, Zhao was appointed prime minister in 1980 and later assumed the post of Communist Party general secretary. | | | After working as a party official during the liberation war of 1937-49, he rose to prominence in the party in Guangdong province from 1951. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2989335.stm
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| | PM - Zhao Ziyang dies leaving political legacy for China |
| | Zhao Ziyang dies leaving political legacy for China | | | Before his downfall, Zhao was a leading reformer who pushed for China's move to a market economy. | | | PM - Zhao Ziyang dies leaving political legacy for China |
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http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2005/s1283576.htm
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| | CNN.com - Purged Chinese leader dies - Jan 16, 2005 |
| | Ousted Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang dies at 85. | | | He opposed the use of force against the Tiananmen Square demonstrators and was removed from his post during the clampdown. | | | The former leader had been kept under house arrest until his death. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/16/china.zhao
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| | AsiaMedia :: Hu's Reforms and the Zhao Ziyang Fiasco |
| | Friends of the Zhao family said an estimated 4,000 people — many from Henan, Zhao's home province, as well as Guangdong, one of his power bases — showed up at the Fu Qiang house to mourn the reformer the first three days after his death. | | | A month after becoming party General Secretary, Hu made headlines by pledging to restore the dignity of the constitution and the principle of "rule by law". | | | The list of the nearly 2,000 participants in the brief event — mostly relatives and retired cadres who had once worked under Zhao — had been carefully screened by officers from units including the police and Ministry of State Security (MSS). |
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| | Chinese leader Zhao cremated in tightly controlled funeral - INQ7.net |
| | Zhao said the family was "not surprised" by the government's actions, but felt it had done its duty. | | | "Comrade Zhao Ziyang, who passed away on January 17 at the age of 85, was cremated at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in western Beijing Saturday morning," the official Xinhua news agency said in a brief dispatch. | | | Zhao's ashes were taken to his Beijing home where they will be placed for now, said his son Zhao Sijun. |
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| | The New York Times > International > Asia Pacific > Zhao Ziyang, Chinese Leader Purged for Supporting ... |
| | Zhao's visit to Tiananmen was also notable for the dazed-looking aide, captured in a famous photograph, who accompanied him: Wen Jiabao, now China's prime minister. | | | Zhao's political apprenticeship came as a provincial bureaucrat. | | | Zhao in 1984 meeting with Vice President George H. Bush. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/17/international/asia/17zhao.html?ex=1263618000&en=3e24a01959dccfa6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
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| | Fabian's Hammer: Could Zhao have led the struggle for democracy? |
| | He was deprived of his political career and confined to his house, where he remains today. | | | When you are the anvil, bear -- when you are the hammer, strike (Edwin Markham) | | | Zhao was overruled, and eventually accused of splitting the party by siding with the students. |
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| | CBC News: Thousands attend Zhao Ziyang memorial |
| | Dissidents and unaccredited reporters were not allowed to attend the ceremony, held in Babaoshan Cemetery in Beijing and those on the government approved guest list were required to show identification before entering the site. | | | A former premier and party leader, Zhao helped launch China's reforms under then supreme leader Deng Xiaoping. | | | Some reports say his family wishes to have him buried in a section of the cemetary reserved for state leaders. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/01/29/zhao-ziyang050128.html
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| | China Cremates Deposed Leader Zhao Ziyang (phillyBurbs.com) Asia |
| | Zhao's children - four sons and a daughter - shook hands with passing mourners. | | | China Cremates Deposed Leader Zhao Ziyang (phillyBurbs.com) | | | Zhao spent his last 15 years under house arrest after being ousted for sympathizing with the Tiananmen Square protesters - an action that made him a symbol of democratic change. |
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| | Zhao Ziyang (1919-2005) |
| | Crafty politicking by Jiang Zemin's chief aide, Zeng Qinghong, resting on a number of trumped-up charges involving State President Yang Shangkun, meant that the plan was quickly thwarted. | | | Could it have been his former right-hand man, Premier Wen Jiabao, the latest Great White Hope among China's reformers? | | | There are reports that a senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party has already visited Zhao Ziyang's remains to pay his respects. |
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| | Zhao - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Zhao Yun, a general during the era of Three Kingdoms. | | | Zhao is also the shorthand of State of Zhao during the end of Spring and Autumn Period. | | | Elaine L. Chao, United States Secretary of Labor. |
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| | iafrica.com news world news Ousted Chinese leader dies |
| | Zhao served as the head of the Communist Party and China's prime minister for much of the 1980’s until being ousted in 1989 for opposing the military crackdown on the six-week-long student-led protests. | | | Although the ruling Communist Party has discredited his political reform plans, his economic reforms in the 1980s set the stage for 25 years of robust economic growth. | | | The state-controlled media on Sunday broke a long-standing news blackout on the man, saying in an English-language report that his condition had stabilised. |
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| | TIMEasia.com: Asian Heroes - Zhao Ziyang |
| | His father, a landowner in Henan province, was killed by the ccp during land reforms in the late 1940s. | | | For the past 13 years, Zhao and his wife, Liang Boqi, have lived under house arrest in Beijing. | | | He was stripped of his position and replaced by the nimble first party secretary of Shanghai, Jiang Zemin. |
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| | Swap Blog » Blog Archive » Zhao Ziyang dies |
| | Zhao opposed this assult on the protestors and as a result was stripped of his job and sentenced to house arrest. | | | His death was barely announced, and the government is currently in the process of removing all his finger prints, including mentioning of his name, from modern China. | | | Religious freedom in China lost a huge friend today with the death of Zhao. |
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| | >>> AsiaNews.it <<< Zhao Ziyang, a prophet for today’s China |
| | Apart from economic reforms, Zhao Ziyang had also proposed political reforms of a liberal nature, such as separating state and party; adopting basic democracy, tackling corruption by separating state powers (legislative, judicial and executive) and removing these from the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). | | | Zhao is also remembered for having reopened Catholic churches and for having given religious freedom. | | | Only on a few occasions was he allowed to leave house arrest to go visit old friends in Guangdong, where in the past he had been secretary and where he had begun those reforms that made the special economic zones the backbone of China’s economic revival. |
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| | CBC News: Former Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang dies |
| | In recent years, reports of his ill-health have led to government nervousness that his death will lead to unrest and protests. | | | In 1987 Zhao became general secretary of the party, but the events in Tiananmen Square two years later proved to be his downfall. | | | Born in Henan province, Zhao had been a member of the Communist party since 1932. |
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| | China to hold funeral for deposed leader Zhao Ziyang - INQ7.net |
| | Hong Kong newspaper Mingpao quoted Zhao's family as saying the ceremony will take place in western Beijing's Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, where middle- to high-ranking party cadres are often buried. | | | Until his death, he had been under house arrest for 15-and-a-half years in his classical Chinese courtyard home, north of the square, which was constantly guarded by military police. | | | Zhao, who died in a Beijing hospital on Monday aged 85, was ousted for opposing the military crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in which hundreds, if not thousands, were killed. |
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| | Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang dead - Deccan Herald |
| | Former Chinese Communist Party chief, Zhao Ziyang died of illness in a local hospital here today, the state media reported. | | | Zhao had been confined to his courtyard home here in the Chinese capital for over 15 years, but current leaders remain nervous about the residual influence of modern China's icon of reform, fearing his death could trigger widespread social unrest. | | | "Comrade Zhao had long suffered from multiple diseases affecting his respiratory and cardiovascular systems, and had been hospitalised for medical treatment for several times," the official Xinhua news agency reported in a brief report. |
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| | China: Demise of former Premier and Party Chief Zhao Ziyang |
| | Veteran leader Deng Xiaoping in his June 9,1989 address to Martial Law units, without naming Zhao, accused "some comrades" of not understanding the nature of the problem. | | | China: Demise of former Premier and Party Chief Zhao Ziyang | | | Yang Shangkun and Li Peng, former President and Premier respectively had accused Zhao of splitting the Party and supporting the 1989 student 'turmoil'. |
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| | On Zhao Ziyang |
| | He is Zhao Ziyang’s son, who just ‘transferred’ from Nanchang Aerospace School to our College.” | | | Zhao Ziyang was not ready to take the opportunity to become China’s ruler, and indeed, his children were one sensitive factor causing his fall in 1989. | | | Zhao Ziyang left the world with the hope that the CCP would rehabilitate the democratic movement and his status, “the earlier the better.” It is early to have a final conclusion of him. |
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| | The Epoch Times Zhao Ziyang’s Death: The CCP Writes the Tenth Commentary |
| | Mere days after news of Zhao’s death reached the outside world, retired cadres, exiled dissidents, desperate appellants, and foreign admirers asked the Party to give Zhao the justice and credit he deserved. | | | The Party’s craven silence on Zhao- his funeral had no eulogy- confirmed the fundamental truth about the Party, a truth Zhao himself learned when he began his 15-year house detainment: you can be an honest man; you can be a Communist; you can never be both. | | | Still, even yours truly might have been forced to rearrange his world view had Hu et al stood with Zhao’s family and said, in effect, Zhao was right, and Deng, Li, and Jiang were wrong. |
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| | CTV.ca China cremates deposed leader Zhao Ziyang |
| | Zhao spent the last 15 years of his life under house arrest for his public statements. | | | He was punished for the rest of his life -- and even after his death. | | | "Zhao Ziyang was born a great man and died gloriously," one mourner told CTV News. |
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| | The Peking Duck: Zhao Ziyang on his deathbed |
| | Zhao may not have been a real democrat but his greatest legacy will be that he refused to kill his own people in 1989. | | | The Peking Duck: Zhao Ziyang on his deathbed | | | If his disvow of his party's time-honored veneration for violance ensures his place alongside FW de Klirk, then his 15-year ordeal surely has promoted him to the rank of Nelson Mandela. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Chinese warily mourn purged leader Zhao |
| | China's leadership has remained silent about Zhao's death, although the current prime minister, Wen Jiabao, was among those who joined the former party leader in his appeal to the students in 1989. | | | The Chinese government was challenged yesterday to allow the public an opportunity to mourn Zhao Ziyang, the purged communist leader who was kept under house arrest since his tearful appearance at Tiananmen Square in 1989, until his death yesterday, aged 85. | | | The spark for the 1989 demonstrations was the demise in April that year of Hu Yaobang, the reformist party chief purged two years earlier. |
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| | Zhao's Death Awakens the Ghosts of Tiananmen - Newsweek: World News - MSNBC.com |
| | 17 - When he breathed his last on Monday, fallen Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang was called, simply, "comrade." At his political apex in the late 1980s, he was a champion of democratic reforms to ease the party's stranglehold on power. | | | Skewered for trying to split the party, he spent the rest of his years confined to a loose form of house arrest. | | | Zhao's name and face have been blacked out in China for more than 15 years, stressed dissident Liu Xiaobo, a former Tiananmen leader. |
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| | NewsFromRussia.Com China take leave of Zhao Ziyang |
| | Zhao was one of the first CCP leaders who introduced economic and political reforms in China. | | | Zhao's former secretary, Bao Tong, released a statement in which accused the government of making "a systematic attempt to erase Zhao Ziyang's name from history". | | | China is facing calls to reassess its suppression of the 1989 student protests after the death of purged english.pravda.ru/main/2002/01/21/25880.html ' target=_blank>Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang. |
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| | RConversation: A moment of silence: Zhao Ziyang dies |
| | Here is what he said at the time about Zhao and his legacy: | | | Zhao Ziyang, a former Chinese leader who has been under house arrest since 1989 for supporting the student protesters in Tiananmen Square, has died. | | | I believe that Zhao Ziyang won because he upheld the ideas of democracy and law, so he proved that the June 4 crackdown was wrong. |
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| | Don’t Let Europe Forget Tiananmen or Zhao Ziyang |
| | As the 85-year-old Zhao Ziyang lay on his deathbed in a Beijing hospital last week with secret police stationed outside his door, the European Union’s new Commissioner for External Affairs, Benita Ferraro-Waldner, visited Washington to break the news that the European Commission intends to end its Tiananmen-era arms embargo on China. | | | We now know how the bureaucrats in the European Commission will mark the death of China’s reformist leader Zhao Ziyang, who was purged in 1989 when he opposed the Communist Party’s decision to crush the democracy movement at Tiananmen in 1989: They will apologize to China’s new leaders for making such a fuss about it. | | | In addition, Congress should resurrect legislation that would reduce U.S.-European defense cooperation in technologies that E.U. members share with China. |
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