Jiang Zemin, from 1989 to 2002, Secretary-General of the Communist organization of China, from 1989 to 2004, president of the Central Military Commission, from 1993 to 2003, president of the People's Republic of China, creator of the alleged 3 Representation Principles, which came to power after protests in Tiananmen Square, died at the age of 96. State media reported that he died today, Wednesday, November 30, 2022 afternoon Beijing time.
Jiang Zemin was 1 of the most crucial figures in China in fresh decades. It was during his office that China made remarkable in its scale and effects of the economical and civilization leap that allowed you to scope its present position.
Jiang came to power after a bloody trial with protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, which led to the imposition on China of many embargoes and isolation internationally.
This event launched a fierce power conflict at the summit of the Communist organization of China between hard reactionaries and reformers. The others, led by Deng Xiaoping, yet won. Jiang Zemin, seen as devoid of the dynamism and charisma of a bureaucrat, was elevated to the highest positions in the country, as a compromise leader, in the hope that he would unite hardheaded and more liberal.
These appearances have deceived many. Under the leadership of Jiang Zemina China became a ‘factory of the world’, the economy of the PRC grew to the degree previously unimaginable, at a rate that amazed the full world. China has taken a place in a narrow group of planet powers.
Jiang Zemin was co-author of Hong Kong's peaceful return to matrix in 1997 and China's entry into the planet Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001, which intertwined China's economy with the planet economy.
Jiang Zemin and G.W.Bush, Summit APEC Shanghai 2001Jiang Zemin, like Deng Xiaoping, did not combine economical and social reforms with political reforms (as predicted by the American administration to be a natural process). He was criticized for violently dealing with the Falun Gong spiritual sect in 1999, which was seen as a threat to social stability. In China, he was already surviving in a pantheon of characters who contributed to restoring China's rightful position in the world, but above all the lifting of China and the Chinese themselves from centuries-old backwardness and universal poverty.
Today's news yet cuts off speculation about Jiang Zemina's absence at the 20th legislature of the KPCh held on 16-22 October. The Chinese side reported about Jiang's mediocre age health, Western media viewed in his absence the second bottom, Jiang's common dislike and Xi's.
“Toad”, as it was called, will stay in the grateful memory of many, many people. In mine, for sure. Not as a circumstantial man, but alternatively as a symbol of a certain period, which present has definitely become history, and which, with years, will most likely begin to take the notion of “old, good times”. They may not truly have been so good, but they were surely full of energy, hope, fresh impressions, a man (me) who was inactive very young.
Leszek B. Glass
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