Jun 02 Leader Profile: Chinese Communist Party Official Zhao Ziyang By PBS News Hour On May 19, 1989, Chinese Communist Party Secretary General Zhao Ziyang picked up a bullhorn and urged student demonstrators to end their hunger strike against the Chinese government in the name of peace and national stability. Continue reading
Jun 02 Leader Profile: Chinese Patriarch Deng Xiaoping By PBS News Hour While Deng Xiaoping held many positions within the Communist Party and was never head of government or state, but did serve as the de facto party leader and leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to the early… Continue reading
Jun 01 China Appears to Tighten Internet Access Around Tiananmen Anniversary By PBS News Hour In the lead-up to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen protests on June 4, concerns over Chinese censorship of the Internet are running strong, although problems with unpredictable Web access and other matters are proving just as tricky. Continue reading