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'''Jiang Zemin''' succeeded [[Chinese]] [[dictator]] [[Deng Xiaoping]] when the latter died in 1997. Jiang refused to improve China’s record on [[human rights]], and [[Christianity]] and [[democracy]] still remain suppressed there. There are one-party elections now precipitated by the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]].

'''Jiang Zemin''' was the top Chinese leader from about 1992 until 2002. [[Deng Xiaoping]] appointed him chairman of the China's Military Commission in 1989, after the [[Tiananmen Square Massacre]]. Although this is normally the top position in the Chinese government, Deng at first retained authority through a group of senior leaders called the Central Advisory Commission. Jiang dissolved this group in 1992. Deng died in 1997. Jiang refused to improve China’s record on [[human rights]], and [[Christianity]] and [[democracy]] still remain suppressed there.

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