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...Hardliner Li consolidates his power within the Communist leadership...
...million protesters demand ousters of Deng and of Prime Minister Li Peng. Number of hunger strikers increases to 3000. Martial law declared...
China tunes in. A speech by Premier Li Peng urging support for environmental protection leads off the evening news from Beijing on April 22, and an Earth Day concert airs nationwide later that night...
...Communist Party itself is still being "rectified," though less dramatically than the police. Key sympathizers of deposed party leader Zhao Ziyang, who was sacked for supporting last year's protests, have been demoted or dismissed. Last week Premier Li Peng told reporters that Zhao, who has not been seen in public since last May, is a "free man" but is still under investigation for political crimes. Meanwhile, the party process of Maoist- style "self-criticism," or recantation, continues...
...look at the country today and how far it is in its educational standards, it's a long way off before that seeps down. I think, without question, our strategic interests require that we re-establish a constructive relationship with China. Human rights requires it too, because Li Peng is not totally in control. There are others who will be contesting with him for power. The U.S. will always come down on the side of the progressives and the reformers, rather than the reactionaries...