Tag: Zhao Ziyang
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...