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Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who died on Nov. 29 at the age of 96, was not particularly popular during his 1993-2003 tenure, even though it was a time of fast economic growth and opening up after the Tiananmen crackdown. But he is looking bett…

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: ‘I’m just reporting what’s going on’

During a spate of spontaneous protests across China last weekend following a fatal lockdown fire in Xinjiang’s regional capital Urumqi, a Twitter user with the handle “Mr. Li is not your teacher” was thrust into the international limelight as he upload…

Former Chinese top leader Jiang Zemin dies at age 96

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who led the country during its emergence from isolation after the 1989 Tiananmen massacre to a decade of rapid economic growth, died on Wednesday at the age of 96, Chinese state media reported.
Jiang died in his ho…

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