Published: December 7th, 2022,
Last updated: December 7th, 2022
Xi Jinping paid his respects to his late predecessor Jiang Zemin at the Great Hall of the People on Tuesday. „A great Marxist and leader“ he had been, who maneuvered the country through times of „external pressures and internal difficulties,“ Xi said in his speech. Xi even indirectly mentioned the 1989 Tiananmen protests, a taboo that is not often addressed publicly otherwise, as Frank Sieren reports from Beijing. He thus praised the suppression of the protests. That could be a nod to last week’s protesters that no one in the party would hesitate to take harsh measures.