Yang Shangkun Quotes

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People say my hands are stained with blood.

At a private dinner a year after the army attack on Tiananmen Square

Yang Shangkun

To restore normal order and stabilize the situation there is no choice but to move units of the People's Liberation Army to the vicinity of Peking [...] If this state of affairs is allowed to continue then our capital will not be a capital.

Yang Shangkun

Above all, we must not let this question of the student movement harm our hard-won stability and unity.

Yang Shangkun

We should promote political integration through the economy, compel the Taiwan authorities to talk with us by manipulating Taiwan people's opinion, and lead exchanges between the two sides in a direction favorable to the reunification of the motherland.

Yang Shangkun

How could we justify to the rest of the world imposing martial law on our capital?

When the Beijing Party Commission had proposed imposing martial law after the Tiananmen Square protests

Yang Shangkun

Yang Shangkun

Yang Shangkun

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Born: August 3, 1907

Died: September 14, 1998 (aged 91)

Bio: Yang Shangkun was President of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, and was a powerful Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Central Military Commission under Deng Xiaoping.

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