A complete translation of Wen Jiabao's editorial in memory of Hu Yaobang. This essay is very significant because it might indicate that there is a political shift happening in terms of how Hu Yaobang and even the Tiananmen Square protests are being viewed.
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April 15th was the twentieth anniversary of Hu Yaobang’s death. Hu was a beloved leader, the General Secretary of the CCP for nearly a decade, and many people were thinking about his legacy on Wednesday. One group of people who wasn’t thinking about Hu Yaobang? The staff at the People’s Daily. Hu Yong noted...
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Twenty years ago today, April 15th, Hu Yaobang died, and in response, China exploded. Hu Yaobang was a CCP leader, and the General Secretary of the Party from 1980 until 1987, when he was forced out by socialist hard-liners for advocating bourgeois liberalization. He was forced to write a self-criticism, and when he died...
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