Word: zhao
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Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang sent a message to the students early Wednesday promising the government would "work out concrete measures to enhance democracy and law, oppose corruption, build an honest and clean government and expand openness," the official news agency Xinhua reported...
...possibility is that with Mikhail Gorbachev due in Beijing on May 15, China's rulers were loath to set the stage with a crackdown. Some cynics speculated that conservatives plan to use the spasm of protest to claim a new liberal victim, possibly Hu's successor, Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. But a Western diplomat in Beijing disagreed, suggesting that the era of fall-guy politics has ended. Said he: "Can they let another guy go down the tubes, given the growing cynicism of the Chinese people, the concern for human rights outside the country and their need for more...
...Union. But White House officials acknowledged that Bush never raised the issue directly in his private talks with China's top leader, Deng Xiaoping, and Premier Li Peng. The Chinese did, though. Toward the end of a wide-ranging 90-minute conversation on Sunday afternoon, Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang told Bush that dissidents threatened to upset the social order, which would "provide a pretext for the turning back of ((economic)) reforms." American support for them, Zhao added bluntly, "will not be conducive to the relationship between China and the U.S." Rushing off to a television interview, Bush...
EASY DOES IT, YOUNG MAN. Will Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, 68, eventually succeed Deng Xiaoping, 84, as China's leader? A recent spasm of economic unrest did not help his chances. Zhao reluctantly called for a slowdown in the pace of reform. But that decision is likely to slow his ascension. China's veteran military commanders will now wait to see if Zhao, once considered a shoo-in to succeed Deng, can put the economy back on course...
...approach poses a dilemma for Deng, Zhao and other reformers. Not only does the change of course expose popular fears of the market-oriented direction that the economy is taking but it also underscores the leadership's inability to force the middle levels of the party bureaucracy to administer the reforms. Referring to the pragmatic Zhao's victory over conservatives in winning the party leadership a year ago, a Western economic analyst summed up, "The leaders confused the fact that they no longer had political opposition with the illusion that the country was ready for such fundamental reforms...