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Reform at a time when there were few political reformers in chinese government. he tried to rehabilitate people who had been persecuted during the cultural revolution and was accommodating towards students and intellectuals demanding more freed freedoms. he was ousted in 1987 by hardliners for his laxness and liberalizati liberalization. when he died in 1989, throngs of students gathered in tiananman square to mourn his death. that crowd was the origins of the protest in tiananman square. they stayed for almost two months until the chai niels government sent in the tanks. since then, hu yaoban s name has been erased from chinese history until wen jiabao rehabilitated him. i asked him about that memoir he wrote and political reform in china. you wrote an article about your old boss, hu yaoban, which i was ....
the waters of the two countries. that came on the heels of china surpassing japan, that came on the heels reports of the massive efficacy of china s stimulus program and so on, but in all this news, when rarely gets the chance to hear from one of the people running this remarkable country, one that has grown now at over 9% a year for 30 years. well, now you will. we have for you a very rare event, an interview with wen jiabao, premier of china. he spoke to me two years ago on this program, and he hasn t spoke on it a western journalist since, until now. let me tell you a little about this extraordinarily powerful, yet little known man. he was born in a suburb of tianjin, the northeastern city in china, now connected by the world s fastest train to beijing, a 75-mile trip takes half an hour. he s an engineer by training as are almost all of the people running china and he has an advanced degree in geology, which is how he began his career in ministries related to geology ....