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After enduring what Wu says is comparable to the tortures of Nazi concentration camps for' years, he was freed with Deng Xioping's rise to power...
...Jiang was summoned to Beijing from Shanghai by Deng Xiaoping on May 21, 1989, and there he participated in the final decision to massacre the peacefully demonstrating students...
There was an additional factor in the mayor's rise. The leadership in Beijing was bitterly divided over whether Deng's economic reforms should continue, and a strong faction was already slowing them down. Jiang had a usefully malleable view: he was called "the Weathervane" for astute shifts in stance that made him acceptable to both sides...
...named China's President. But his perch at the top was extremely tenuous, almost entirely dependent on Deng's support. For that reason, Jiang was as reticent and correct as possible in his first years in power. When CNN interviewed the new President in 1993, he wanted to read all his answers from a TelePrompTer. On those occasions when he allowed himself a little spontaneity, it tended to backfire. In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, he described the Tiananmen killings as "much ado about nothing," prompting outrage in the West. "He is a lightweight," decided a Clinton Administration official...
...that a visit to the colonial capital of Williamsburg Va. late Monday ? during which every TV correspondent can allude to the Jefferson-quoting Chinese President "seeing where democracy began" ? and the stage is set for the biggest PR coup since Deng Xiaoping donned a ten-gallon hat back...