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...soldiers would move into Beijing as soon as the city's residents understood the need to restore order. From all available signs, Deng Xiaoping had cast his lot with the hard- line faction headed by Li. The losers were a more reformist group led by party chief Zhao Ziyang. Diplomatic sources said that Zhao had been stripped of his power, although perhaps not his title, and put under house arrest for daring to challenge the paramount authority of Deng. As for Deng, he is believed to be in the capital, personally directing troop movements by phone. Last week's power...
...leadership faced its most serious challenge in the state's 40- year existence. Every hour seemed to bring a fresh rumor, especially after the government ordered the restriction of China Central Television and the end of foreign television transmissions. Deng remained very much in charge, stripping power from Zhao Ziyang, the Communist Party leader who only days earlier had been host of a banquet for Gorbachev. Premier Li Peng assumed control of the party as well as the government, but the bond between the Chinese people and their leaders snapped so violently last week that Li may end up representing...
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...
...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 foreign investment...
...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 did not respond...