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Bao Tong, Zhao Ziyang’s aide during the 1989 democracy movement, has written an essay titled, “Remembering Zhao Ziyang”: For genuine and long-term stability, Zhao proposed reforms that ultimately aimed at the legalization and systemization of democracy. He wished to establish the kind of democratic politics that could support and nurture a healthy market economy. Although […]
Read MoreJournalism students at Beijing Foreign Studies University have written their opinions of the arrest of New York Times researcher Zhao Yan on their weblog, We Observe the World. Their professor Joseph Bosco writes, “For the final exam of last semester’s ‘American Journalism’ class at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, I asked my 60 students to […]
Read MoreJonathan 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 […]
Read MoreOn AsiaMedia, Patsy Rahn writes about efforts by Falun Gong to use the media to gain support for their cause: Given their goals, what kind of coverage might we expect to see in FLG media? Most importantly, FLG wants to be in the news — whatever keeps the group highly visible is successful. Reports on […]
Read MoreThis 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, […]
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