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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...
...mainland, would coax Taipei toward reunification. But the slowdown of China's reforming economy over the past two years has raised the threat of massive unemployment and social instability, and that has led to a political resurgence of hard-liners grouped around National People's Congress chairman Li Peng, China's number two leader, who wants reforms slowed down rather than speeded up (as China's entry into the World Trade Organization would require). The fact that it was arch-reformist Premier Zhu Rongji who issued some of the strongest threats yet against Taiwan on Wednesday may be a sign...
...newly elected board also includes co-President Jenny I. Shen '01, co-Vice President Pamela F. Peng '02, Educational/Political Chair Chhay Chhun '02, Cultural Chair Emmeline M. Chuang '02, co-Social Chair Roger Hong '03 and Interethnic Liaison Sean S. Cheng...