new video loaded: Examining Li Peng’s Tiananmen Legacy as the ‘Butcher of Beijing’ transcript Li Peng, the former Chinese premier, died on Monday at 90. Mr. Li’s role in the deadly Tiananmen Square ...

FILE PHOTO: Chairman of the National Congress of the People's Republic of China Li Peng stands next to a Chinese flag in Canberra's Parliament House BEIJING (Reuters) - Former Chinese Premier Li Peng, ...

BEIJING (AP) — The legacy of former Chinese Premier Li Peng is reflected in modern China itself, where extended and broad-based economic growth is inextricably coupled with authoritarian political ...

“It’s impossible to divorce Li Peng’s legacy from his role in the Tiananmen Square crackdown,” said Jude Blanchette, a scholar of Chinese politics and author of the 2018 book “Under the Red Flag: The ...

Li Peng, the former Chinese Premier remembered for his role in the brutal military suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protesters, has died aged 91, according to state-run media. Li died of an ...

Former Chinese premier Li Peng — known as the “Butcher of Beijing” for his role in the brutal crackdown of the Tiananmen Square Protests — has died at age 90. Li died of an unspecified illness in ...

Scholars describe Li, a Russian-trained engineer, as an aloof technocrat. Orphaned early in China’s civil war, he was adopted by Zhou Enlai, the country’s first premier. Throughout the Tiananmen ...

HIS DIARY entry for April 27th 1989 recorded the moment when the trouble touched Li Peng directly. On his way home from his prime ministerial office in Beijing, his car was blocked by student ...

CORRECTS AGE TO 90, INSTEAD OF 91 - FILE - In this Nov. 8, 1997, file photo, released by China's Xinhua News Agency, then Chinese Premier Li Peng, center, gives the order to block one side of China's ...

BEIJING — Li Peng, a former hard-line Chinese premier best known for announcing martial law during the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests that ended with a bloody crackdown by troops, has ...