Zhao Reportedly Seen Playing Golf in Beijing
Zhao Ziyang, China’s Communist Party leader accused of supporting the student pro-democracy movement, has been seen playing golf on a Beijing course, the Japanese daily newspaper Sankei Shimbun said Saturday.
Sankei quoted Japanese government sources as saying that Zhao was seen sometime after senior leader Deng Xiaoping appeared in public June 9.
Zhao’s last public appearance was May 19, when he met protesters in Beijing’s Tian An Men Square. A day later, martial law was declared in the Chinese capital, and on June 3-4, a brutal army assault cleared the square of protesters.
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