China’s Ex-Premier Li Peng was one of the main leaders of the Tiananmen square massacre. The most controversial politicians of recent Chinese history, has died at the age of 91 years.
An event that will remain forever with the name of China’s Ex-Prime Minister Li Peng, linked: The bloody suppression of the democracy movement on Tiananmen square in June 1989. The Hardliner Li is one of the main perpetrators of the Tiananmen square massacre, in which according to conservative estimates, hundreds of people were killed. “He has veterans in the Party and Deng Xiaoping (the de facto leader of the country), massive mood against the protests, to ensure that they took the movement as a danger,” says the Sinologist Sarah Kirchberger. In the “people’s daily”, the mouthpiece of the party, stressed Li, that measures should be taken to stop the unrest. A day later, he announced martial law in Beijing, which allowed for the violent suppression of the students. “Li Peng has played a decisive role in the ‘Tiananmen incident’, but the main responsibility wore Deng Xiaoping,” says the Chinese historian Zhang Lifan.
In may 1989 in Beijing: Li Peng was politically shortly before his end, believed these students shortly before the massacre
The adopted son of Zhou Enlai
Li bangs and booms has been shaped from the very beginning of the Communist party of China. He was born on the 20. October 1928 in Shanghai as the son of a writer and early member of the CCP. At the age of three he was adopted by the later Minister President and foreign Minister Zhou Enlai, after his body had been is father of the nationalist Kuomintang hung. How many other party cadres of his Generation, he received a technical training. In 1945, at the age of 17, he joined the CCP. Two years later he went to study to Moscow. There, he specialized in the construction of water power plants. After his return to China in the mid-50s year, he managed a variety of energy projects. Probably due to his leading role in the country’s important energy sector, but also by the position of his adoptive father Zhou Enlai, the supernatant Li Peng the chaos of the cultural revolution unscathed.
Then-Chancellor Helmut Kohl at the end of 1993, when Li Peng in Beijing, as one of the first Western visitors to 1989
Economic Conservative Premier
The rise of Deng Xiaoping after the death of Mao was Li’s political career. Between 1979 and 1983, he held various political Offices, including that of the Minister for energy. In 1987, he eventually became a member of the Standing Committee of the political Bureau of the CCP, China’s tightest circle of power. Only a year later, Deng Xiaoping appointed him to be Prime Minister – a, at that time, a surprising step. Because Li did not seem to share Deng’s market economic ideas, he’s put on more state and less market. But Deng Xiaoping’s famous “trip to the South” of 1990 set the key Signal for China’s awakening in the turbo-capitalism with Chinese characteristics: in order for Li were bangs and booms plans to more state control of the economy waste.
His biggest project, the controversial Three gorges dam on the Yangtze river, the he regarded as his life’s work was. For the giant project of millions of inhabitants had to be resettled. Critics complain until today, environmental and safety problems. However, the dam was built and the advocates see the dam as an important step for China’s economic growth and for the energy supply.
Directs State-Owned Enterprises: Li Of Bangs And Booms Daughter Li Xiaolin
The “red capitalist”
After his term as head of government, Li Peng, Chairman of the National people’s Congress was. In 2002, he retired from politics. But his influence was still great. Large parts of China’s energy sector are controlled by members of Lis. China expert Kirchberger sees this as both a means to power, but especially also for the enrichment of the family clan. Also in connection with allegations of corruption, Li’s family did with the Offshore companies, and his daughter Li Xiaolin headlines. “Actually, it’s not to see why an official who heads a state-owned enterprises, can build this a hundred times millions of assets,” says Kirchberger. “The profits of these companies then moved with the help of foreign banks abroad and the access of the state Treasury withdrawn. The assets of the theft of the state.”
Li Peng is on 22. July 2019 at the age of 91 years died. The “butcher of Tiananmen”, as critics of the regime call it, remains after the death of controversial. However, in his term, the example fell loose rise of the Chinese economy. This economic success and the orderly Transition from Plan to market economy are held in his today of large Parts of the party to the benefit.