Posts Tagged ‘China’
Zhao Ziyang’s Memoir: The Taliban of Tiananmen Square
Zhao Ziyang (d. 2005) was a top Chinese leader who was deposed over his sympathy with 1989 protests by students (in Pashto, taliban, albeit with a small 't') who were massacred in the bloody 4 June 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, that he tried to prevent. Reflecting on his recently published memoir, as reported in the Bangkok Post of 14 May [...]
