Financial Times (FT), Mar 21 (item 1 is a must-read)

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(1) Jamil Anderlini, Wen Lays Ground for Tiananmen Healing to Begin. Financial Times, Mar 21, 2012
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/13c6fc ... 9-00144feab49a.html

Quote:

(a) "According to people close to top-level internal party discussions, Mr Wen [in his "painfully deliberate oratory" hours before Bo's removal] was tentatively laying the foundation for a move that would blow apart the established order in China and kick-start the political reform he has agitated for in recent years.

"That move would be the rehabilitation and re-evaluation of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protests and the massacre that followed on June 4

(b) "In calling for a re-evaluation of the cultural revolution, Mr Wen was in fact signalling his intention to do the same for Tiananmen in order to finally begin the healing.

"Mr Wen has already suggested this on three separate occasions in top-level secret party meetings in recent years, according to people familiar with the matter, but each time has been blocked by his colleagues.

"One of the most vehement opponents of this proposal was Bo Xilai.

"As the student protests centred on Tiananmen Square in Beijing spread across the country, Bo Yibo was one of the elders who repeatedly pressed Deng Xiaoping to take a hard line and send in the troops.

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(2) (and (3) will be added tomorrow. I am in the library, where somebody is holding the newspaper.