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  • China's ghost at the feast(Zhao Ziyang nearing death, could set off unrest)

    06/02/2004 6:05:41 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 4 replies · 212+ views
    BBC NEWS ^ | 06/02/04 | Tim Luard
    China's ghost at the feast By Tim Luard BBC News Online Those who say how "normal" China has become - as they dine out on the success of its economic growth - often overlook one not-so-normal fact. The man who ran the country for much of its first decade of reforms has been under house arrest for the past 15 years. Zhao has been gagged since his appeal to the Tiananmen protesters Zhao Ziyang has not been seen in public since he tearfully appealed to students to leave Tiananmen Square soon before the announcement of martial law in 1989....