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China held a funeral and cremation ceremony for former premier Li Keqiang on Thursday, making an effort to hustle him off the national stage quickly and quietly while mourners quoted his words as veiled criticism of increasingly unpopular dictator Xi Jinping.from a sudden heart attack last Friday at the age of 68.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meets with Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum WEF, via video link at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, July 19, 2022. It was just such a memorial-turned-protest after the death of a former premier in 1989 that eventually grew into the, which the Chinese Communist Party addressed by turning it into the Tiananmen Square massacre. In that case, the late premier was named Hu Yaobang and he was forced out of power two years before he died, becoming a martyr for liberalization in the eyes of pro-democracy students.
China affairs director Dexter Roberts of the University of Montana told RFA that many Chinese believe “Li, who came from a humble background unlike princeling Xi, cared about the many less well-off people of China.” One such mourner praised Li for making “a great contribution to people’s lives, to the improvement of living standards,” and because he “always rushed to the front line” during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Such comments drew a rather stinging contrast with Xi, whosome of Li’s more memorable quotes going viral on Chinese social media as a way for mourners to “subtly rebuke top leader Xi Jinping for seemingly breaching Li’s promise” of liberalization.
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