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...April 26 editorial was one of the two reasons listed by the students for their hunger strike, and it is not difficult to imagine that, had a retraction indeed taken place, the two sides might have arrived at a basis for future compromises. At that meeting, however, Premier Li Peng adamantly opposed such a retraction, invoking Deng's words that the April 26 editorial "must never be changed...
...commemorations of the late CCP secretary Hu Yaobang to also include a call for more fair evaluations of their movement. The "Tiananmen Papers" also show that the April 26 editorial was the result of much political maneuvering on the part of the conservatives within the CCP, led by Li Peng and Chen Xitong, then mayor of Beijing...
There are few surprises about who the villains of Tiananmen were, but there is an unmatchable frisson in watching them play their roles in real time. Li Peng, then China's Premier, was and is still known as a hard-line troublemaker. He comes off terribly in the papers: wheedling, whining, gleefully back-stabbing peers unlucky enough to have missed a meeting. Watch as he tries to manipulate Deng Xiaoping in an early conclave: "Some of the protest posters and the slogans that students shout during the marches are anti-Party and anti-socialist," he says. "The spear...
...mysticism, the idea of a nationwide organizational structure to rival the Communist Party?s was intolerable to the leaders in Beijing. And concerns over the social impact of economic liberalization have seen Zhu increasingly eclipsed in Beijing?s leadership by hard-liners grouped around People?s Assembly chairman Li Peng...
...ruling Communist party. Although the reformers grouped around Prime Minister Zhu Rongji had hoped to use the market-opening requirements of WTO membership to leverage an accelerated transition toward a free market economy, they've encountered increasing resistance from hard-liners led by National People's Congress president Li Peng...