Li Peng
(b. 1928), Chinese premier. Born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, in October 1928, Li Peng is the orphaned son of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) worker and was adopted by Chinese premier Zhou En...
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A protégé of the Chinese Old Guard Li Peng became premier of the People's Republic of China in 1989, Li Peng (born 1928) presided over the massacre in Tiananmen Square two months later.L...
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China's food safety monitor promised Tuesday to investigate a report that more than half of the water coolers in Beijing use counterfeit branded water.The water is either tap water or purified wate...
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China's top legislator Wu Bangguo is set to visit Washington
this fall at the invitation of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and o...
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Following is a chronology involving the relationship between
Japan and China in recent years.
2001
August -- Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visits Yasukuni
Shrine in Tokyo, becoming t...
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Past and present Chinese leaders appeared together on army day Wednesday, celebrating the founding of the People's Liberation Army in a striking show of unity ahead of a key Communist Party congres...
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