Zhao Ziyang

Shanghai stock market closes with a spooky echo of Tiananmen Square

2012-06-04 16:41:29

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From the archives: Chinese Crowds Block Troops

1989-05-20 00:00:00

BEIJING -- Chinese leaders Friday ordered soldiers into Beijing to attempt to restore order after a month of massive pro-democracy demonstrations, but residents swarmed to block the army's way. By 8 a.m. today, more than 10 hours after the army advance...

From the archives: Protesters Retain Control of Square

1989-05-22 00:00:00

BEIJING -- Defiance of martial law by masses of Beijing residents and power struggles within the Chinese leadership left pro-democracy protesters still in control of central Beijing at noon today. For about 50,000 student demonstrators gathered in the...

From the archives: Protests For Democracy Students Defy Regime With March in Beijing

1989-05-28 00:00:00

BEIJING -- Tens of thousands of students took to the streets of the capital today, defying martial law with a boisterous call for democracy and demanding that Premier Li Peng resign, just as he and other hard-line Communist Party leaders were mounting a...

Firing Convoys Roam Beijing

1989-06-05 00:00:00

BEIJING -- A new wave of fear swept Beijing today as military convoys rumbled through the Chinese capital, firing repeatedly into the air and sometimes at pedestrians, while more armor was sent to reinforce the army's hold on Tian An Men Square. About...

From the archives: Economic Reforms to Continue, Deng Vows

1989-06-10 00:00:00

BEIJING -- China's leadership puzzle began to fall into place Friday with the reappearance of Communist patriarch Deng Xiaoping, who endorsed last weekend's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators but promised that economic reforms will continue....

China Teeters on Edge of Civil War as Rival Forces Mobilize

1989-06-06 00:00:00

BEIJING -- China teetered this morning on the edge of civil war, with troops presumed loyal to hard-line President Yang Shangkun in control of central Beijing but positioned defensively at strategic points in apparent anticipation of attack by rival...

From the archives: Protests For Democracy in Tiananmen Square; Troops Fire on Beijing Crowds

1989-06-04 00:00:00

BEIJING -- Chinese troops of the People's Liberation Army opened fire with automatic weapons early today on huge crowds of civilians in Beijing, killing at least 100 of them and perhaps many more, according to medical and diplomatic reports, in a...

From the archives: China Hard-Liners Appear in Control

1989-06-09 00:00:00

BEIJING -- Premier Li Peng, whose martial-law order for troops to clear Tian An Men Square of student protesters resulted in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of deaths, appeared publicly Thursday for the first time since the weekend massacre and briskly...

From the archives: Deng, Li Seen Winning China Power Struggle

1989-05-26 00:00:00

BEIJING -- Senior Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and Premier Li Peng, having marshaled overwhelming military superiority in the Beijing area, appeared this morning to have won a power struggle with Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang and other reformist...

From the archives: Gorbachev in China: The Communist Summit

1989-05-15 00:00:00

BEIJING -- Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev arrived in Beijing today for the first Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years, ending the long and bitter conflict between the two great Communist powers. Gorbachev's four days of talks with Chinese leaders,...

From the archives: Protest Crisis Splits China's Leaders

1989-05-19 00:00:00

BEIJING -- Crisis engulfed China on Thursday as the nation's leaders appeared split over whether to use the army to put down massive demonstrations demanding that senior leader Deng Xiaoping step down. Reports circulated among some Chinese officials...

At Hong Kong's Victoria Park, people file past a billboard showing a photo of former Chinese Communist Party secretary-general Zhao Ziyang during a candlelight vigil marking the 20th anniversary of Beijing's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. Zhao was ousted over his

2009-06-04 00:00:00

Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang , center with loud hailer, speaks with fasting university students in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in May 1989.

2009-05-15 20:28:44