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- Jiang was personally selected by Deng Xiaoping on the recommendation of other party elders, as he was a good compromise candidate in the aftermath of the purge of party leader Zhao Ziyang and the brutal crackdown at Tiananmen. Yet Jiang, who died on November 30 at age 96, proved to have remarkable staying power.
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Dec 6, 2022 · China's ex-leader Jiang Zemin, an influential reformer, has died at 96. The passing of Jiang has both Chinese and foreigners who lived in China in the 1990s pondering how much the country has...
- Frank Langfitt
Jiang was the third paramount leader of China from 1989 to 2002. He was the core leader of the third generation of Chinese leadership, one of four core leaders alongside Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping . Born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, Jiang joined the CCP while he was in college.
Nov 30, 2022 · China's former leader Jiang Zemin, who came to power after the Tiananmen Square protests, has died at 96. State media said he had died just after 12:00 local time (04:00 GMT), in Shanghai, on...
May 20, 2024 · Jiang Zemin, Chinese official who was general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1989–2002) and president of China (1993–2003). He was noted for reducing state ownership and control of some of China’s industries and for seeking to improve relations with the United States.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nov 30, 2022 · Jiang was personally selected by Deng Xiaoping on the recommendation of other party elders, as he was a good compromise candidate in the aftermath of the purge of party leader Zhao Ziyang and the brutal crackdown at Tiananmen. Yet Jiang, who died on November 30 at age 96, proved to have remarkable staying power.
- David Shambaugh
Nov 30, 2022 · Jiang Zemin, the Shanghai Communist kingpin who was handpicked to lead China after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and presided over a decade of meteoric economic growth, died on Wednesday in...
Dec 6, 2022 · Jiang, who took power after the 1989 crackdown of the Tiananmen Square protests, will be remembered for leading the country through a decade of burgeoning economic growth and prosperity. He...
