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...They have airbrushed Zhao's name from history and from real life." BAO TONG, aide to purged Chinese leader and reformist icon Zhao Ziyang, criticizing the official silence that greeted Zhao's death last week. The government eventually agreed to allow a low-key memorial service...
...color of death. One carried the inscription, "Go with an Easy Heart." The most liberal leader China's Communist Party has ever known died in seclusion on Jan. 17 after spending more than 15 years under house arrest in this modest home on Fuqiang Lane. Many ordinary Chinese remember Zhao Ziyang, who advocated political reform and opposed the Tiananmen Square massacre, as a symbol of their country's democratic aspirations. His former comrades, by contrast, had tried never to mention him at all. Zhao became a political ghost, but one with a rare power. The mere utterance of his name...
...Right now, that seems unlikely. Hu stayed well away from any commemoration of Zhao's death. Propaganda organs barred broadcast media from reporting Zhao's death and instructed China's official newspapers to bury a one-sentence notice of his passage on their inside pages. The government did agree to allow a memorial service at a Beijing burial ground where many senior leaders are interred, but Hu conveyed no message of condolence to Zhao's family. Hu instead spent the week launching a campaign to "consolidate the ruling status" of the Communist Party. His most significant comments in the days...
...recently Hu's leadership style has been at odds with the more liberal facets of his career?raising doubts that he intends to build on Zhao's legacy. At the heart of the distinction between what Zhao tried to do and what Hu appears committed to is the role of the Communist Party. Zhao spent his nearly 20 months as Party chief working to limit the Party's interference in institutions of government such as the courts, the state-owned media and local legislatures. Such competing power centers, he hoped, would bolster fledgling economic reforms by making government more transparent...
...people into key political positions, the President must watch his step. "Most leaders have to shore up their credibility with the Party's Old Guard before moving forward," says Anthony Saich, director of the Asia program at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. "Even Zhao went along with the political rhetoric of his day by criticizing 'bourgeois liberalism' before launching new political reforms...