投稿者: John Gittings
Doctor and Aids activist who uncovered China’s blood contamination scandal despite resistance from health officialsWhen walking down a narrow alley in a small north Chinese village in the mid-1990s, Dr Gao Yaojie heard a child crying desperately for it…
Chinese leader who oversaw economic growth and a stable relationship with the US, and encouraged his country to ‘enter the world’Jiang Zemin, who has died aged 96, was put in charge of the Chinese Communist party as its general secretary in May 1989 am…
Andrew Hickman’s obituary of Carmel Budiardjo, the campaigner for human rights and justice in Indonesia, refers to the political effects of the cold war in south-east Asia. One consequence was that the west turned a blind eye to the 1965 massacre in In…
Chinese political scientist who was forced into exile after the Tiananmen Square massacreThe political scientist Su Shaozhi, who has died aged 96, was a campaigner for reform of the Chinese Communist party in the post-Mao years, until he was forced int…