Word: peng
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...President), ostensibly for reasons of health, and headed home. But instead of returning to Beijing, he landed in Shanghai, where he was put up in a guesthouse outside the city -- possibly under house arrest. On Saturday a statement was read on Chinese television saying that Wan Li supported Li Peng -- dashing the hopes of protesters that Wan would convene an emergency session of the National People's Congress to consider Li's removal...
...that the P.L.A. not be used to quell the uprising. "The army must absolutely not shoot the people," it read. Two days later, the military's Liberation Army Daily quoted a letter from the P.L.A. general staff (also dated Monday) urging troops to study carefully a speech by Li Peng denouncing the uprising as a counterrevolutionary threat...
...apparent triumph of the hard-liners reduces those goals to impossible dreams. But it does not by any means solve Deng's political problems. On the contrary, Li Peng is widely regarded as a drab mediocrity -- and a potential scapegoat for having allowed so much popular discontent to surface. Deng might | try to push him aside once order has been restored. And what price have the hard-liners had to pay to guarantee the military's allegiance? "The party must control the guns," Mao wrote. "The guns must not control the party." But in China's postwar history, the military...
With the importance of images fading, temporarily at least, there was little in the way of solid analysis. After declaring martial law on nationwide TV, Premier Li Peng was not seen in public for five days; Deng Xiaoping and party leader Zhao Ziyang, the other key players in the power struggle, remained out of sight even longer. During this period of uncertainty, solid information was the scarcest of commodities in China, and wild rumors abounded. There were even reports that Deng was fleeing into retirement in the U.S. Protesters in Shanghai, Xian and Lanzhou staged memorial services for Beijing hunger...
Though Premier Li Peng appeared to have triumphed over General Secretary Zhao Ziyang last week, both men are accused of string pulling. One source of resentment against Li, the adopted son of former Premier Zhou Enlai, is that his connections enabled him to study in Moscow and rise rapidly through the ranks. Zhao's son is chairman of the Hainan Huahai Co., a trading and investment company. Moreover, Yang, Zhao and Deng are all believed to have sons-in-law who work for army-run companies that export Chinese arms...