Li Peng
Britishnoun
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CNN footage showed Gen. Scowcroft toasting with Li Peng, a senior Chinese official who played a key role in ordering the Tiananmen crackdown.
From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2020
Former Chinese premier Li Peng, a hardliner who imposed martial law during the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, died at 90.
From Washington Times • Jul. 15, 2020
July 2019: Li Peng, the Communist Party politician responsible for the Three Gorges Dam, dies at age 90.
From Reuters • Nov. 14, 2019
Others stepped on pictures of Li Peng, the recently deceased former Chinese premier who backed the Tiananmen Square massacre of student protesters in 1989.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2019
“Deng was not happy about how Li Peng had made his remarks public,” Mr. Zhao said.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2014
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