{"id":4361,"date":"2019-07-23T21:31:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T12:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/23\/former-chinese-premier-li-peng-butcher-of-beijing-dies-aged-90"},"modified":"2019-07-23T21:31:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T12:31:04","slug":"li-peng-former-chinese-premier-known-as-butcher-of-beijing-dies-aged-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=4361","title":{"rendered":"Li Peng: former Chinese premier known as &#8216;Butcher of Beijing&#8217; dies aged 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politician known abroad for his role in crushing 1989 Tiananmen Square protests<\/p>\n<p>The former Chinese premier Li Peng, reviled by rights activists and many in the Chinese capital as the \u201cButcher of Beijing\u201d for his role in the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests, has died, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p>Li, who was 90, died on Monday in Beijing, Xinhua reported, more than three decades after his government authorised a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/31\/tiananmen-square-anniversary-what-sparked-the-protests-in-china-in-1989\">bloody suppression<\/a> of student-led pro-democracy protests in the early hours of 4 June 1989.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/23\/former-chinese-premier-li-peng-butcher-of-beijing-dies-aged-90\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politician known abroad for his role in crushing 1989 Tiananmen Square protestsThe former Chinese premier Li Peng, reviled by rights activists and many in the Chinese capital as the \u201cButcher of Beijing\u201d for his role in the crackdown on the Tiananmen Sq&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,80,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-protest","category-tiananmen-square-protests-1989","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/4362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}