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Zhao Ziyang died in Peking at age 85.(The Week)(Obituary)

National Review

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* Zhao Ziyang died in Peking at age 85. After serving as prime minister of China, 1980-87, and as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, 1987-89, Zhao became an unperson after the crushing of the 1989 protest movement. He spent the subsequent years under house arrest, being allowed out now and then to play a round of golf. After news of his death came out, the Communist government acted ferociously against any attempts to commemorate him publicly. Zhao was the principal person responsible for implementing Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the early 1980s, thereby laying the foundations for the great Chinese boom of recent years. He was sympathetic to the 1989 student movement, to which he felt the Communist ...

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