More on Zhao Ziyang's death

Call me a HYPOCRITE, because I will now bash Zhao Ziyang.
As much as the western media would like to make a
reformer/dissenter/good guy out of him, his role is
more dubious than the western media hoped.
In terms of economic reform, Deng Xiaoping no doubt
takes most of the credits, as he will for the crackdown.
"Mr. Zhao was one of the architects of the liberalization
that has transformed and enriched his country."
That's an overstatement. He took part in the economic
reform, that's the extent of it.

Zhao's sons were among the elites who then profited
immensely from the reform, caused huge inflation and
thus part of the reasons for the students to strike.
If you believe the 1989 events were solely for
democracy, you don't know what happened then.
It was half political, half economical.

Credit Zhao for his objection to crackdown, but there's
no need to promote much more than that. Should he
be a great reformer as the western media hoped,
there would not have been the student strike at all.