BREAKING NEWS: Highly influential former Chinese president dead at 96
Even as China opened to the outside, Jiang’s government stamped out dissent at home. It jailed human rights, labor and pro-democracy activists and banned the Falun Gong spiritual movement, which it viewed as a threat to the Communist Party’s monopoly on power.
Jiang is survived by his two sons and his wife, Wang Yeping, who worked in government bureaucracies in charge of state industries.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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