{"id":50115,"date":"2022-11-10T02:35:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T17:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/09\/bao-tong-former-top-aide-of-chinese-leader-zhao-ziyang-dies-at-90"},"modified":"2022-11-10T02:35:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T17:35:35","slug":"bao-tong-former-top-aide-of-chinese-leader-zhao-ziyang-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50115","title":{"rendered":"Bao Tong, former top aide of Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang, dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Communist party official jailed over Tiananmen democracy movement became one of party\u2019s most vociferous critics<\/p>\n<p>Bao Tong, the most senior Chinese Communist party official jailed over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/tiananmen-square-protests-1989\">Tiananmen pro-democracy movement<\/a>, has died four days after his 90th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The former top aide of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2005\/jan\/18\/guardianobituaries.china\">reformist leader Zhao Ziyang<\/a>, a sympathiser of the student-led movement that was crushed by the military in 1989, died early on Wednesday morning in Beijing, his son Bao Pu said in a brief Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/09\/bao-tong-former-top-aide-of-chinese-leader-zhao-ziyang-dies-at-90\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Communist party official jailed over Tiananmen democracy movement became one of party\u2019s most vociferous criticsBao Tong, the most senior Chinese Communist party official jailed over the Tiananmen pro-democracy movement, has died four days after &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"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":[41,50,662,80,431,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-communism","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\/50115","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50116,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50115\/revisions\/50116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}