Zhao Ziyang
Americannoun
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Party elders picked Jiang to replace General Secretary Zhao Ziyang amid the party’s greatest crisis in the post-Mao era.
From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2022
He succeeded Zhao Ziyang, who was dismissed by Deng due to his sympathy for the student-led Tiananmen Square protesters and was held under house arrest until his 2005 death.
From Washington Times • Nov. 30, 2022
In the 1980s, Bao was a top aide to Zhao Ziyang, then general secretary of the Communist Party - the same post now held by Xi Jinping.
From BBC • Nov. 10, 2022
The organization, identified in the complaint as the Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang Memorial Foundation, was entangled in another criminal case this week.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2022
Former officials whose memoirs cannot be published in China, among them the late ousted party leader, Zhao Ziyang, often turn to Hong Kong for an outlet.
From New York Times • May 19, 2013
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