From Yahoo! News: “Zhao’s death could yet become a rallying point for change. After all, the Tiananmen Square movement itself sprang from the spontaneous outpouring of grief following the death of Zhao’s reformist predecessor, Hu Yaobang. Similar protests followed Zhou Enlai’s death in 1976. ‘To mourn Zhao is to defend human rights,’ Bao Tong, one of his former aides, wrote in a eulogy obtained by Radio Free Asia. ‘To mourn Zhao is to pursue democracy and the rule of law.’
The question is whether the symbolic importance of Zhao’s death could lead to action in a China that has changed tremendously since 1989.”
