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  • China's Zhao Details Tiananmen Debate(Zhao Ziyang's memoir)

    05/15/2009 1:52:58 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 7 replies · 624+ views
    WP ^ | 05/14/09 | John Pomfret
    China's Zhao Details Tiananmen Debate Posthumous Memoir Castigates Party By John Pomfret Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 15, 2009 Zhao Ziyang violated one of the central tenets of Communist Party doctrine: He spoke out. But it is only now, four years after his death, that the world is hearing what he had to say. In a long-secret memoir to be published in English and Chinese next week, just in time for the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party claims that the decision to impose martial law around Beijing in May...