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Article: CHINESE ASSAIL LIBERALISM AFTER HU'S DEPARTURE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 18, 1987
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BEIJING - The national television news railed against
Western liberal ideas yesterday but made no mention of Hu Yaobang,
who was forced to resign in disgrace as head of China's Communist
Party for allowing those ideas to spread.
Hu's resignation, announced Friday, was carried on the front
page of morning dailies, but no paper provided details or analysis
on his fall from political grace.
On Friday, the televised evening news said Hu resigned after
making a "self-criticism of his mistakes on major issues of
political principles" at a meeting of the party Politburo.
Chinese and diplomatic sources theorized that the senior
leader, Deng Xiaoping, had forced Hu to step down because ...