Tiananmen Witnesses Skeptical of Wen Jiabao's Reform Push
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2012-03-23
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And two men who were at Tiananmen Square in 1989 have weighed in on Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's reported attempt to revisit the incident. They are skeptical of what Wen is able to achieve so late in his premiership, saying the contending factions within the Communist Party will likely stop any effort for real political reform.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao hopes to push for political reform, according to the Financial Times, citing an anonymous source inside the Chinese regime. Part of that attempt would be to redress the Communist Party's bloody crackdown of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
Wu Renhua, a former teacher at the China University of Political Science and Law, was in the middle of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. He says Wen Jiabao has left it too late in his term to be discussing political reform.
[Wu Renhua, Witness of Tiananmen Square Protest]
"I don't think he can achieve what he says. He's been the Premier for two terms -- that's 10 years, and now he has less than 6 months left. If he truly wanted to discuss political reform, he should not have left it to just before his departure to reiterate it."
The Financial Times says, this was not the first time that Wen had wanted to revisit the Tiananmen crackdown. In fact, he brought it up on three previous occasions during high-level meetings in the Communist Party— but was pushed aside by other Communist officials, including the recently purged leftist Bo Xilai.
Fan Zheng, whose leg was run over by a military tank during the Tiananmen Square crackdown, says the contending forces within the Communist Party is why Wen is unlikely to implement his political hopes.
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And two men who were at Tiananmen Square in 1989 have weighed in on Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's reported attempt to revisit the incident. They are skeptical of what Wen is able to achieve so late in his premiership, saying the contending factions within the Communist Party will likely stop any effort for real political reform.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao hopes to push for political reform, according to the Financial Times, citing an anonymous source inside the Chinese regime. Part of that attempt would be to redress the Communist Party's bloody crackdown of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
Wu Renhua, a former teacher at the China University of Political Science and Law, was in the middle of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. He says Wen Jiabao has left it too late in his term to be discussing political reform.
[Wu Renhua, Witness of Tiananmen Square Protest]
"I don't think he can achieve what he says. He's been the Premier for two terms -- that's 10 years, and now he has less than 6 months left. If he truly wanted to discuss political reform, he should not have left it to just before his departure to reiterate it."
The Financial Times says, this was not the first time that Wen had wanted to revisit the Tiananmen crackdown. In fact, he brought it up on three previous occasions during high-level meetings in the Communist Party— but was pushed aside by other Communist officials, including the recently purged leftist Bo Xilai.
Fan Zheng, whose leg was run over by a military tank during the Tiananmen Square crackdown, says the contending forces within the Communist Party is why Wen is unlikely to implement his political hopes.
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