Tag: Zhao Ziyang
Who Kept Zhao Ziyang Under House Arrest for 16 Years? The Answer Points to Jiang Zemin
Deng Xiaoping removed Zhao; Jiang Zemin made sure he stayed gone The initial decision to remove Zhao...
Why Reagan Still Haunts Beijing: What Deng Xiaoping Saw in 1981
On a cold afternoon in Washington on March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan stepped out of the Hilton Hotel and...
Why Hu Yaobang Fell: Zhao Ziyang Reveals the Two Words That Angered Deng Xiaoping
At a small meeting, Deng Xiaoping raised a proposal. Hu Yaobang expressed agreement, replying simply,...
The Hidden Cost of Revolution: How Communist Forces Spared Zhao Ziyang, Then Executed His Father
In the early years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Communist leaders including He Long, Lü Zhencao...
Hu Yaobang: Betrayed, Broken, and Silenced by the CCP
By Fu Longshan In official Chinese textbooks, Hu Yaobang’s life ends with three sterile words: “died...
The Life of Zhao Ziyang: What His Experiences Reveal About the CCP’s Brutality
By Zhang Yuming A former section chief surnamed Zhang once told me that when the mass rally was convened...
CCP Corruption Exposed by Former Top Leader and Executed Police Chief
By Fu Longshan Former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Zhao Ziyang once stood at the...
Tiananmen Revisited: The Political Coup Behind the Bloodshed
By Wei Pu International outlets have recently run several installments of Li Nanyang’s interviews...
The Sentence That Altered 1989: Bo Yibo’s Warning to Zhao Ziyang
By Longshan Fu In the spring of 1989—weeks before tanks rolled into Beijing—China’s top leaders gathered...
Secret Tiananmen Trial Video Surfaces After 34 Years
In 1989, as the Tiananmen Square protests swept across Beijing, the Chinese military ordered its elite...
Will China See Another Hua Guofeng? Xi Jinping, Dictatorship, and the Politics of Divine Retribution
Public frustration toward Xi Jinping is easy to understand. Yet, as commentator Lü Honglai argues, calling...