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|w=Chao Tzu-yang
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In 1987 he replaced [[Hu Yaobang]] as CCP General Secretary, but he was increasingly unpopular with hard-line communist elements in the leadership, and his failure to control events in [[Tiananmen Square]] in 1989 - he entered the square and engaged in dialogue with the pro-democracy protesters, something unheard of for a Chinese leader - cost him the support of Deng. Zhao was the sole Politburo member not to vote for the imposition of martial law which preceded the [[Tiananmen Square Massacre]]; he was dismissed from his posts and spent the reminder of his life under house arrest.
In 1987 he replaced [[Hu Yaobang]] as CCP General Secretary, but he was increasingly unpopular with hard-line communist elements in the leadership, and his failure to control events in [[Tiananmen Square]] in 1989 - he entered the square and engaged in dialogue with the pro-democracy protesters, something unheard of for a Chinese leader - cost him the support of Deng. Zhao was the sole [[Politburo]] member not to vote for the imposition of [[martial law]] which preceded the [[Tiananmen Square Massacre]]; he was dismissed from his posts and spent the reminder of his life under house arrest.
==External link==
*[https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/CLM30JF.pdf What Zhao Ziyang Tells Us about Elite Politics in the 1980s], Joseph Fewsmith
[[Category:People's Republic of China]]
[[Category:People's Republic of China]]