Zhao Ziyang text pleads for democracy - CN

[dArKeR]

A secret manuscript that Beijing is trying to stop from being published outlines purged premier Zhao Ziyang's (???) plea for the Chinese Communist Party to relinquish its absolute power and for China to follow the path of democracy.

It also airs Zhao's contention that the government blundered in its crackdown on the 1989 democracy protests that led to hundreds if not thousands of citizens being killed, author Zong Fengming (???) said in an interview.

The sensitive manuscript -- now at the center of the arrest of Hong Kong-based Straits Times reporter Ching Cheong (??), who was detained while trying to obtain a copy of it, has yet to make its way out of China.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/06/03/2003257686

Chinese Communist Bastards. What is America doing building the Chinese Communists so that they may attack us someday? And the war isn't going to be like fighting the Iraqi rebels who have no jets, helicopters, subs, aircraft carriers, body armor, radar, communication equipment, video cameras on helmets, and trees.

[The Traveler]

1. As Lenin said, "When it comes time to hang the west

a capitalist will sell me the rope."

[David__77]

2. The Chinese Communists lost power in 1976.

These are not communists you are criticizing. They are rightists. Zhao Ziyang is no better though, and his program would have set China on the path of even greater ruin through wholesale Westernization. We can see this ruin in the former superpower Soviet Union, reduced to social rubble.