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High-Profile Yang Baibing Memorial Reveals Infighting Within CCP

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High-Profile Yang Baibing Memorial Reveals Infighting Within CCP
Zhao Leji, secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, attends the closing of the 3rd Session of the 12th National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 15, 2015. Lintao Zhang/AFP/Getty Images
Wang He
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Chinese officials held a symposium on Sept. 9 to commemorate Yang Baibing (1920–2013), the commander-in-chief of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) who led the bloody suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square student demonstration.

Wang He
Wang He
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Wang He has master’s degrees in law and history, and has studied the international communist movement. He was a university lecturer and an executive of a large private firm in China. Wang now lives in North America and has published commentaries on China’s current affairs and politics since 2017.
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