Say ‘Hello’ to John, Ted, and Harry.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/former-chinese-leader-jiang-zemin-dies-at-96/ar-AA14JeNK
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Jiang was tasked with improving China’s image during worldwide condemnation after the military’s deadly putdown of student-led pro-democracy protests at Tiananmen Square.
The former mayor of Shanghai, Jiang invited entrepreneurs to join the Communist Party and increase economic changes while modernizing the Chinese military and tightening political control during his 11-year rule.
“He managed to steer China from great difficulties to great promise,” Jia Qingguo, the former dean of Peking University’s School of International Studies, told NPR.
“China became — under his leadership — more open to the outside world, more liberal and China’s economy became more dynamic.”
Jiang’s leadership in China’s capitalist transformation helped the country build its middle and upper classes, lifting it into the world’s second-largest economy behind the United States. His political stature helped usher in the current President, Xi Jinping.
and they’re celebrating his death with another massacre
One down...
Has Biden ordered USA flags to be lowered to half mast yet?......................
He was a good leader for China and for peaceful relations with the U.S.
His mouth is shut now.
Like him or not, his era was a time of (relative) openness and freedom in China.
People got on with making money, building a free-market, and the excesses of communist social-movements and politics didn’t intrude on their lives.
Xi Jinping has thrown that all into reverse
Its all relative, but Jiang’s era was far better than what most people have experienced in China.
Wasn’t he the guy that Xi had him escorted out of that big Chicom meeting.
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