China Curbs Discussion of Late Leader Who Opposed Crackdown
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Chinese leaders imposed a ban on reports about the death of Zhao Ziyang, who opposed the 1989 crackdown on protesters.
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SANTIAGO -- Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Sunday dismissed Chinese President Hu Jintao&#39;s criticism of his controversial visits to Tokyo&#39;s Yasukuni Shrine where the war dead, including Class-A war criminals, are enshrined.
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A Chinese author who was briefly  detained by police overnight along with two other intellectuals  said Tuesday the authorities appeared to be trying to build a  case against him as part of a crackdown on government critics.
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The Chinese government refrained on Monday from saying much about the results of Sunday's elections in Hong Kong, but the country's Communist leaders had reason to be pleased.
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China will bar dissidents from a weekend memorial for Zhao Ziyang, a former Communist Party leader ousted in 1989 after sympathizing with Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, but will allow some 2,000 other mourners to take part, an activist close to Zhao's family said Friday.
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BEIJING - President Hu Jintao yesterday hailed the authoritarian side of the late leader Deng Xiaoping, as shown in the Tiananmen Square crackdown - and issued a further warning to Taiwan not to pursue independence.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI  - China slammed Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's intensified talk of independence on Monday, saying anyone who sought a split from China would be a "criminal in history."
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The family of China's purged Communist Party chief, Zhao Ziyang, has decided not to request the government to arrange a state funeral, a source close to the family said on Tuesday.
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China's communists wrap up a key leadership meeting Sunday amid speculation over whether former President Jiang Zemin is giving up his last major post, accelerating a handover of power to his successor, Hu Jintao.
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BEIJING, May 25 -- China dropped another hint of internal debate over political reform Friday, publishing commentaries saying the country should shun European-style democratic socialism.
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China's Communist Party chief Hu Jintao is seeking to cement his grip on power at a closed-door party meeting which began on Sunday while further whittling away at the residual influence of his predecessor, Jiang Zemin.
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Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao called for parliament to take a stronger watchdog role on the eve of a key leadership meeting but ruled out Western-style democracy
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China rejected on Wednesday Secretary of State Colin Powell&#39;s call to resume dialogue with Taipei, saying Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian&#39;s overtures
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The Chinese government said Thursday it would hold a scaled-down funeral service for Zhao Ziyang, easing its efforts to restrict public mourning for the deposed Communist Party chief after criticism from party elders and others.
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The latest in a series of  moves leading up to China&#39;s biggest Communist party meeting in  years saw broadcast media censors ban all &quot;vulgar&quot; and sexually  explicit material from the airwaves, state media reported  Tuesday.
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China&#39;s state-run media has rejected calls from the Taiwanese president for peace talks with Beijing. The China Daily newspaper said Chen Shui-bian&#39;s idea was &quot;too insincere and vague to be treated seriously&quot;.
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With the death of Zhao Ziyang on Monday, China has lost one of the few senior political voices who tried to stop the Tiananmen Square massacre as well as its most famous political prisoner.