biography
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| (1907–98)
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| biography:
| President of the People's Republic of China (1988–93), born in Tongnan, Sichuan, C China. He studied in Moscow, and became an alternate member of the secretariat in 1956, but during the Cultural Revolution (1966–9) was purged for alleged ‘revisionism’. He was rehabilitated (1978) and inducted into the Politburo (1982). He became a vice-chairman of the state central military commission (1983), and elected president. Viewed as a trusted supporter of Deng Xiaoping, he has strong personal ties with senior military leaders, and in June 1989 it was 27th Army troops, loyal to him, who carried out the massacre of pro-democracy students in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. |
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