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Zhao Ziyang

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Zhao Zi·yang  (jou dz-yäng) or Chao Tzu-yang (jou dz-) 1919-2005.
Chinese politician. Purged from the Communist Party in the Cultural Revolution, he was reinstated (1971), served as premier (1980-1987), and was appointed general secretary of the Communist Party (1987). He was dismissed in 1989 for showing support for pro-democracy demonstrators.
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He added that Li Jinping, who every year tries to organise commemorations of deposed former leader Zhao Ziyang, who opposed the use of force to quell the 1989 protests, had also been detained.
China dissidents 'detained ahead of Obama visit' by AFP / AFP Asian Edition
Yet as he traveled the booming coastal provinces, then-Premier and Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang, an architect of several key reforms, was troubled by mounting evidence of rampant corruption, which he considered a symptom of a structural flaw in China's model.
China: A Look Back at a Missed Opportunity by Pete Engardio / BusinessWeek
Zhao Ziyang, then general secretary of the Communist Party, who was dismissed and put under house arrest for the rest of his life, believed that to the day he died: "Most people were only asking us to correct our flaws, not attempting to overthrow our political system".
China: haunted by Tiananmen by Cyprus Mail (Cyprus)
 
 
 
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