Jonathan Watts reported on Zhao’s funeral, noting at the end that: “Earlier this month British Foreign Office officials refused to allow this reporter to ask a question at a Beijing press conference for Jack Straw because the topic – Zhao Ziyang – would offend the hosts. ” Earlier, he wrote an overview of Chinese media […]

This came to us from blogger Rick Carew: Last week I found out that an obituary of the former Secretary of the Communist party Zhao Ziyang would be published by Xinhua before the end of January. This information was given to our publication so they could prepare to publish an obituary for him. This afternoon, […]

From the Asia Wall Street Journal, via Utopia: China’s leaders may have convinced themselves that the country’s relatively new, albeit unbalanced, material prosperity will be enough to keep an uneasy population from peering into some of the darker corners of the country’s communist history. And the popular reaction (or lack thereof) to purged former leader […]