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...appears to be the more immediate cause for his detention. In it, he not only described his memories of the gruesome scene at his hospital on the night the P.L.A. opened fire on peaceful crowds of pro-democracy demonstrators, but he also revealed that China's late President Yang Shangkun and Party elder Chen Yun privately expressed regret over the carnage. For the past 15 years, Beijing has insisted the demonstration was a "counterrevolutionary rebellion" engineered by a small number of "black hands," and denied reports of the mass killing of innocent civilians. Jiang argued in his letter that...
DIED. YANG SHANGKUN, 91, former Chinese President and unreconstructed Marxist who in 1989 gave the order for the People's Liberation Army to fire on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square; in Beijing. A veteran of the Long March, Shangkun was an acolyte of Mao Zedong, and later his victim, imprisoned for 12 years during the Cultural Revolution. Rehabilitated in 1978, he was put in charge of the army by longtime revolutionary compatriot Deng Xiaoping...
...National People's Congress now under way, Jiang Zemin, 67, the current party general secretary, is scheduled to become the fifth President of the People's Republic. Some observers expect that example to spread down the ranks. Coincidentally, when Jiang takes over from retiring Yang Shangkun, 86, it will mark the first postrevolutionary Chinese government without a single prominent veteran of the famed 1934-35 Long March led by Mao. The passage of time has made that separation at last irreversible...
...make room for younger leaders, eight of the Politburo's 14 members, are to retire; all are over 65. Among them: President Yang Shangkun, Vice Premier Yao Yilin and Defense Minister Qin Jiwei. None of this indicates that China's rulers are contemplating any political relaxation. Yang and others who are leaving the Politburo will retain their government positions and their grip on power...
Baker held marathon talks with Qian, President Yang Shangkun, Premier Li and party chief Jiang Zemin, ticking off U.S. concerns about political repression, arms sales, the trade imbalance, North Korea. A senior State Department official, recalling Baker's eight months of shuttle diplomacy that led to the Middle East peace talks in Madrid, called the discussions in Beijing "every bit as tough and difficult, if not tougher." At one point President Yang told the secretary that some problems "cannot be solved for the time being, and the two sides may well leave them aside." On the eve of his departure...